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Guide to the Jacqueline Scott papers

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Collection Overview
Date Span:1988-1997
Creator:Scott, Jacqueline
Extent:2.50 linear inches.
Collection Number:IWA0295
Repository:Iowa Women's Archives
Summary:Elementary schoolteacher in Keokuk, Iowa.

Jacqueline Scott (19xx- ) a Keokuk, Iowa educator and community activist, has been involved with celebrating the history of the African-American community in Keokuk. Her activities have included publishing a companion newspaper for the town's "Taste of Africa" celebrations and compiling a teacher's resource packet on African-American history in Keokuk and Fort Madison, entitled We Shall Overcome.

The Jacqueline Scott papers date from 1988 to 1997 and measure 2.5 linear inches. The papers consist primarily of a resume, community newspapers, educational material, and photocopied photographs of Scott's relatives. The photocopied photographs also appear in Scott's teacher's resource packet on African-American history in Southeast Iowa, "We Shall Overcome."  The community newspapers folders consist of advertisements for the "Taste of Africa" celebration, Taste of Africa 1995 newspaper, 1994 NAACP (Keokuk Chapter 4018) Black Awareness month newspaper, and a newspaper relating to the 1995 annual Keokuk Civil War Reenactment. The educational material consists of the resource packet "We Shall Overcome" and some issues of Backpacking Across the Curriculum, a newspaper for teachers edited by Scott. It also includes a goals statement and a scrapbook of materials that document Wells-Carey Kids Care, a service-learning project Scott implemented for Keokuk first graders to benefit students in the Red Shirt Elementary School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Access: The papers are open for research.

Use: Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa.

Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 404) were donated by Jacqueline Scott in 1997.

Preferred Citation: Jacqueline Scott papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.

Repository:Iowa Women's Archives
Address:100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone:319-335-5068
Curator:Kären Mason
Email:lib-women@uiowa.edu
Website:http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa

Browse by Series:
Series 1: BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
Series 2: COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
Series 3: EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

  • Series 1: BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL
  • Box 1:
  • Resume, undated
  • Photocopied photographs and newspaper clippings, undated
  • Series 2: COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
  • Box 1:
  • Taste of Africa and NAACP - 1994-1997
  • Eighth Annual Keokuk Civil War Reenactment - 1995
  • Series 3: EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL
  • Box 1:
  • We Shall Overcome - 1988
  • Backpacking Across the Curriculum, undated
  • Backpacking Across the Curriculum - 1995-1996
  • School Service Learning Project, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Pine Ridge, SD) - 1996-1997

This collection is indexed under the following subject terms.


Personal Names:
Scott, Jacqueline

Dates:
1980-1989
1990-1999

Topics:
African American women
African Americans
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)

Occupations:
Elementary school teachers
Community activists

Geographic Names:
Keokuk (Iowa)
Iowa

Genre/Form of Materials:
Archives
Personal papers
Photographs

Browse:
African American Women in Iowa
Teachers and Teaching