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African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection

: "1955 Miss SUI was black coed," October 10, 1968

: "A Negro girl is SUI queen," December 13, 1955

: "Black pioneer began life in Gravity," June 9, 1991

: "Campus sweetheart," 1955

: Correspondence between Orval Nielsen and University of Iowa President Virgil Hancher, December 1955

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

: "'Duchess Arlene' soars above race," February 21, 2006

: "Esther Walls has discussion series at New York branch library which she heads," October 26, 1962

: Esther Walls' speeches, 1959

: Esther Walls' speeches, 1960s

: "Hall of Fame inductee reflects on difficult past," September 14, 1992

: "Iowa University students live the golden rule," December 16, 1955

: "Iowa versus Alabama," February 15, 1955

: "Judge recalls UI's bar of blacks," November 7, 1990

: "Lucy dispatches puzzle Europe," March 20, 1956

: NAACP correspondence, Fort Madison Branch, 1963-1970

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, 1963-1966

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1963

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1964

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1965

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1966

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1967

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1968

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1969

: NAACP newsletters, Fort Madison Branch, Fort Madison, Iowa, 1970

: "Negro girl crowned as Miss S.U.I.," 1955

: The negro student at the University of Iowa: a sociological study

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

: Oral history interview with Helen Focht [excerpt]

: "Presenting Dora Lee, queen of the campus," February 9, 1956

: Roscoe Spencer letter to the editor of the Des Moines Register, July 31, 1985

: "S.U.I. queen vote accents tolerance," December 14, 1955

: "Texas girl, 17, collects majority of male votes," December 12, 1955

: "The election of Dora Lee Martin," February 26, 1956

: "This old house an isle of pride, acceptance," April 18, 2001

: "UI alumna makes history," September 27, 1996

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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