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African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

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

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

: Dance card for Alpha Theta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Spring Semi-Formal Party, May 15, 1948

: Dance card for Alpha Theta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Spring Semi-Formal Party, May 9, 1947

: Dance card for Currier Sweetheart Dance, February 14, 1948

: Dance card for Dad's Day Dance All University Party, November 14, 1947

: Dance card for Kappa Alpha Psi Mid-Year Dance, January 31, 1948

: Dance card for Senior Ball All University Party, May 23, 1947

: Dance card for the Senior Party of 1948, June 4, 1948

: Dance card for University Prom All University Party, February 20, 1948

: Dance card for Woodchoppers' Ball, December 5, 1947

: Dragging Currier Hall into the 20th century: first blacks to live in UI residence hall recall 1946 feat

: Edna Griffin images

: Edna Griffin's FBI file, April 1948-October 1951

: Esther Walls' general correspondence, 1949

: Eyes magazine [excerpt]

: Female students at Currier Hall, University of Iowa, 1946

: "First negress candidate for Ph.D. in Iowa," July 20, 1941

: 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

: Hawkeye 1941 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1947 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1948 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1949 [excerpt]

: Invitation to Mason City Junior College dinner-dance, May 27, 1946

: 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

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

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

: Negro business and information directory

: "Negro woman receives Ph.D. at summer convocation," September, 1941

: Program for College of Pharmacy Prize Prom, March 5, 1948

: Program for final examination of Lulu Merle Johnson, July 23, 1941

: Program for Mason City Junior College Annual Dinner-Dance, May 27, 1946

: "Queen and two attendants chosen at the Kappa Alpha Psi dance," May 9, 1948

: State v. Katz, 1949

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Title: African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
Date Created: 1860/2006
Description: More than 250 items, including photographs, news clippings, correspondence, and scrapbooks, reflecting the experience of African American women in Iowa during the 20th century.
Language: English
Subjects: Library of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Civil rights
Segregation
Racism
Universities & colleges
Activists
Subjects: Library of Congress Subject Headings: African American women
Subject: Time: 1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
Subject: Place: United States -- Iowa
Archival Collection: African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection; African American Women Students at the University of Iowa, 1910-1960
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. University Archives
University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
Date Digital: 2006/2008
Rights Management: Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information: Contact the Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/iwa/
Item Type (DCMI): Collection
Item Type (AAT): photographs
clippings (information artifacts)
Item Type (IMT): jpeg