African-American Institute. Women's Africa Committee records, 1959-1978.

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African-American Institute. Women's Africa Committee records, 1959-1978.

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This small collection dates from 1958 to 1978 and consists of records of Zelia Ruebhausen, former chair of the Women's Africa Committee, and includes publications, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, reports, "case histories," reports, by-laws, minutes, memoranda, notes, 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. These records illuminate American efforts at cultural exchange with the emerging independent African nations, particularly as they affected clubwomen in the U.S. and women community leaders from a range of countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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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...