African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

Arlene Roberts Morris posed with bicycle, Iowa City, Iowa?, 1946

Assembly line at Hormel meatpacking plant, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1970s?

Aunt Hattie and her husband Melvin in front of sod home, Speed, Kansas, 1860s

Ben and Sally Lewis and baby Udeil, Albia, Iowa, 1890s

Book Publishing and Library Workshop attendees, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1973

Cecile Cooper photographs, 1965-1968

"Clouds of Joy" choral group directed and organized by Esther J. Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1949

A dance performance at International House, New York, N.Y., 1951

Dancers at a party at Esther Walls' apartment, New York, N.Y., 1960s

Dorothy Huddleston, Marian Martan, Tom Harkin and Jane Burleson, Waterloo, Iowa, September 1989

Edna Griffin images

Eldist Walls and sisters in front of house, 1900s

Eldist Walls in uniform during World War I, 1918

Esther and sister Madelyn Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1994

Esther J. Walls interview, October, 1986

Esther Walls and father Eldist Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1950s

Esther Walls and Femi Oyewole in front of Nigerian map, Nigeria, August 1964

Esther Walls and mother Jewette Walls, Mason City, Iowa, 1950s

Esther Walls posed with a copy of La Vida by Oscar Lewis, 1972

Esther Walls with a disc jockey and Tony Bennett for a teenage program at the Donnell Library Center, New York, N.Y., 1956

Esther Walls with Allen Ginsberg and friend, New York, N.Y., ca. 1968

Esther Walls with International Book Year and reading promotion posters, 1972

Female students at Currier Hall, University of Iowa, 1946

First United Methodist Church sorority, Iowa City, Iowa, 1947

Girls' Dance Team, Blue Triangle Branch of the YWCA of Des Moines, Des Moines, Iowa, March 25, 1941

Jane Burleson, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1986

Jewette Lewis and friend, Albia, Iowa, 1900s

Kappa sisters in formal gowns, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, late 1940s

Madelyn and Esther Walls in graduation caps and gowns, Mason City, Iowa, 1944

Madelyn, Jewette, and Esther Walls at Riverside Park, New York City, N.Y., 1960s

Mason City Junior College friends posing, Mason City, Iowa, 1946

Members of Black Writers panel chatting, Countee Cullen Branch of New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., May 1963

Members of Local P-31 union, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1970s?

Multiracial quartet in performance, First United Methodist Church, Iowa City, Iowa, late 1940s

Oral history interview with Barbara Brown James, May 18, 1998 [excerpts]

Oral history interview with Dora Martin Berry, August 14, 1997 [excerpts]

Participants in the Black Writers' panel, Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., May 1963

"Role of the Black Artist" program at Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library New York, N.Y., August 6, 1963

"Role of the Black Writer" panel at New York Public Library, Countee Cullen Branch, New York, N. Y., May 1963

Roy DeCarava and Esther Walls at gallery show at Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y., 1963

State v. Katz, 1949

Tom Harkin and Jane Burleson, Fort Dodge?, Iowa, July 1982