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IWA Civil Rights & Community Organizing Collections: Fighting for Justice

Purpose

The Fighting for Justice section of this guide provides a sample of Iowa Women's Archives collections that engage with social struggles over civil rights in the past and present. In particular, it highlights the Latinx and LGBTQ collections that speak to ongoing efforts toward racial equality and fair treatment. All of our struggles are connected. This guide also features collections that include material on the work of individuals, communities, and organizations to confront issues of race and racism.

Specialized projects:

Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection

Migration is Beautiful

Images from Latinx and LGBT collections

Order form for "Black Lesbians, an Annotated Bibliography," 1981

Women’s Resource and Action Center records, Iowa Women's Archives

Brown-Black Coalition, June 1988 (Democratic Presidential Debate)

Ila Plasencia papers, Mujeres Latinas Digital Collection, Iowa Women's Archives

Images from Latinx and LGBT collections

Estefania Joyce Rodriguez sitting on steps with brothers John and Tom (right) in doorway, Bettendorf, Iowa, circa 1925

Estefania Joyce Rodriguez papers, Iowa Women's Archives

 

Left to right: Juan Raminez, Mary Terronez, Felipe (Bravo) Terronez ~1930
Mary Terronez papers, Iowa Women's Archives