Women's Africa Committee Records 1958-1978

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Women's Africa Committee Records 1958-1978

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Intercultural exchange organization. This small collection contains the records of Zelia Ruebhausen, former chair of the Women's Africa Committee, and includes publications, correspondence, reports, minutes, photographs, scrapbooks, "case histories," and clippings. The records focus on their Community Service Program, in which participating African community leaders participated in American women's volunteer and educational efforts. The records illuminate American efforts at cultural exchange with the emerging independent African nations.

1 box; (.5 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6322794

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Women's Africa Committee

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In 1958 representatives of women's organizations and women active in the U.S. State Department's overseas outreach efforts formed the Africa Program Committee in order to coordinate existing efforts of women's projects in Africa and emphasize "working with women in new ways, making use of new patterns with full recognition of the indigenous ways of the people." While professionals in the U.S. State Department participated in the founding, early organizers endeavored to establish the...

African-American Institute. Women's Africa Committee

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International cultural exchange organization. b Founded in 1958 as the Africa Program Committee by representatives of American women's organizations and women in the U.S. State Department's overseas outreach programs. Early Committee efforts included the Resident Wives Program for wives of diplomats of newly independent nations who were provided assistance to ease their transition into everyday life in the United States. Upon affiliation with the African-American Institute, a Washington, D.C.-ba...