wa00013. Women, Politics, and the Law
Found in 113 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Betty Jean Furgerson papers
Teacher, social worker, human rights commission director, and university regent from Waterloo.
Denise O'Brien papers
Organic farmer and political activist who served as president of National Family Farm Coalition.
ERA Iowa 1992 records
Grassroots campaign initiated in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1991 to promote the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa constitution in the 1992 election.
Jean Lloyd-Jones papers
State legislator from Iowa City and president of the Iowa Peace Institute.
Margaret Anderson Papers
Subject files, correspondence and clippings relating to women's rights.
Paula Watts Brown papers
Iowa ERA Coalition records
Organization to promote passage of an Equal Rights Amendment to the Iowa and United States constitutions.
Iowa Women's Political Caucus records
Organization to promote the advancement of women in politics.
Mary Kramer papers
Iowa State Senator and United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
League of Women Voters, Iowa records
League of Women Voters, Metropolitan Des Moines records
This non-partisan group studied and acted upon the many local issues including the following: the council-manager form of city government, home rule for local and county government, reapportionment of legislative districts of the Iowa General Assembly, desegregation and integration of Des Moines public schools, and the need for affordable housing in the community.
Joan Lipsky papers
Iowa legislator and community activist from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Magdalen Meade papers
Iowa farm woman and political organizer who was active in Roxanne Conlin's gubernatorial campaign in 1982.
Anna Cochrane Lomas papers
Republican National Committeewoman in the 1950s and 1960s from Red Oak, Iowa.
Martha Nash papers
Civil rights activist, community and religious leader, she was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Education and Vocational Training in Waterloo.
Mary Jane Odell papers
Television journalist and politician who served as Iowa Secretary of State from 1980 to 1986.
Emma Harvat papers
First woman mayor of Iowa City, serving from 1922 to 1925.
League of Women Voters, Johnson County records
Local branch of the national non-partisan League of Women Voters which seeks to promote political responsibility through educating and informing the public on selected governmental issues and promoting action on those issues.
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.