wa00013/wa00013.6. Public Servants and Activists
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
Judith Brodkey papers
Feminist and public health professional in Portland, Oregon.
Alice and Meta Schwiebert papers
Twin sisters from Victor, Iowa who had social work careers in rural communities and settlement houses
Shirley Goldstein papers
An activist on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissidents (known as refuseniks) to help them leave the USSR for Israel and the U.S.
Sally Novetzke papers
Republican Party activist and United States Ambassador to Malta from 1989 to 1993.
Jill Meadows papers
Iowa City obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive rights activist.
Deborah Nye papers
Clippings, publications, and photographs from the career of Deborah Nye, who co-founded the Emma Goldman Clinic for Women in Iowa City, Iowa in 1973.
Margaret Anderson Papers
Subject files, correspondence and clippings relating to women's rights.
Ruth Bluford Anderson papers
Professor Emeritus of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa, author, and Black Hawk County Supervisor.
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Peg Mullen papers
Anti-Vietnam War activist whose son, Michael, was killed by 'friendly fire' in Vietnam in 1970.
Arrangement
Copies of the hardcover and paperback versions of "Friendly Fire" and a hardcover copy of "Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir" are shelved in the printed works collection.
Denise O'Brien papers
Organic farmer and political activist who served as president of National Family Farm Coalition.
Mary Jane Odell papers
Television journalist and politician who served as Iowa Secretary of State from 1980 to 1986.
Patricia J. Pardun papers
State vice chair of the Republican Party in Iowa from 1967 to 1973.
Sue M. Reed papers
Republican Party activist and officer of Iowa and National Federations of Republican Women, 1950s-1970s.
Jane Christoffer Rubel papers
High school bascketball player who sued the Iowa Girl's High School Athletic Union to be allowed to play on the school team after becoming pregnant.
Linda Kinney Neuman papers
Served for over twenty years in the Iowa judiciary and was the first woman to be appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Shirley M. Sandage papers
Mason City, Iowa-born civil rights activist, United States field representative for the Christian Children's Fund and director of program development for the National Organization on Disability.
Dorothy Schramm papers
Human rights advocate from Burlington, Iowa who was active in local and international issues, particularly UNA-USA and the League of Women Voters.
Janet Shipton papers
Political activist and Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor who was the daughter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
Lonabelle Kaplan Spencer papers
American Association of University Women member and advocate for women's issues including dual listings for married women in Iowa telephone directories.
Arrangement
1997 ACCESSION: Boxes 1-11
2007 ACCESSION: Boxes 12-41
2008 ACCESSION: Boxes 42-65