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African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

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

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

: "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

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

: Eldist Walls in uniform during World War I, 1918

: 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' general correspondence, 1949

: 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

: Hawkeye 1912 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1920 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1922 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1929 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1930 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1941 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1947 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1948 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1949 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1950 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1953 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1955 [excerpt]

: Hawkeye 1956 [excerpt]

: 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?

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

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

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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