This post by IWA Graduate Research Assistant Heather Cooper is the ninth installment in our series highlighting African American history in the collections of the Iowa Women’s Archives. The series ran weekly during Black History Month, and will continue monthly for the remainder of 2020. In honor of Latinx Heritage Month (September 15 – OctoberContinue reading “From Alabama to the Barrio: Ernest Rodriguez and the Fight Against Racism in Iowa”
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International Women’s Day
I am sister, I am daughter, I am mother, I am wife. I am all the women in my lineage, their triumphs and mistakes my birthright. This post and poem were written by Zayetzy Luna Garcia, student worker at the Iowa Women’s Archives Family unity is the center of Latinx culture. It is ourContinue reading “International Women’s Day”
Janet Weaver wins 2017 ACRL WGSS Significant Achievement Award
via Association of College and Research Libraries: http://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2017/02/weaver-wins-2017-acrl-wgss-significant-achievement-award CHICAGO – Janet Weaver, assistant curator of the Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa, is the winner of the 2017 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Award for Significant Achievement in Woman’s Studies Librarianship. The WGSS award honorsContinue reading “Janet Weaver wins 2017 ACRL WGSS Significant Achievement Award”
Migration is Beautiful Website Premieres at 2016 National LULAC Convention
July 12th was the kickoff for the 2016 National LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) convention. Janet, assistant curator here at the IWA, attended the conference to promote “Migration is Beautiful,” a new website featuring vignettes, oral history interview clips, memoirs, letters, and photographs from the IWA’s Mujeres Latinas Project. The new website highlightsContinue reading “Migration is Beautiful Website Premieres at 2016 National LULAC Convention”