wa00013/wa00013.6. Public Servants and Activists
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Jane Odell papers
Television journalist and politician who served as Iowa Secretary of State from 1980 to 1986.
Ayako "A. Mori" Costantino papers
Japanese American activist who, after being interned at the Tule Lake Japanese American internment camp with her family, travelled extensively and was heavily involved in human rights and civil rights activism in Iowa City and beyond. The collection includes materials from her personal life, employment, and activism, as well as photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts.
Anna Cochrane Lomas papers
Republican National Committeewoman in the 1950s and 1960s from Red Oak, Iowa.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Marion Helland papers
School teacher and civil rights activist.
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.
Mary Louise Smith papers
First woman to chair the Republican National Committee, serving from 1974 to 1977. Co-founder of the Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives.
Sally Novetzke papers
Republican Party activist and United States Ambassador to Malta from 1989 to 1993.
Jeanne Bridenstine papers
First woman elected chairperson of the Jasper County Democratic Central Committee in 1972.
Roxanne Barton Conlin papers
Attorney and political activist who co-founded the Iowa Women's Political Caucus and was appointed Federal Prosecutor in 1977.
Helen “Sis” Stein papers
Des Moines woman who organized the Know Your Neighbor Panel, a civil activism group, and was a 1999 inductee to the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame. The collection contains materials from her induction, photographs, and materials related to her family.