Women's Africa Committee Records, 1958-1978

Description: 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.

Dates Covered: 1958 -- 1978

Institutional Donor: Africa-America Institute

Holding Institution: Smith College

Archive: Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive

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Ruebhausen and Participants from the Rhodesia and Zambia Group, 1964

in Women's Africa Committee Records, 1958-1978, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 1, Folder 9, 2p.) (Northampton, MA) (1964) , 2 page(s)

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Summer Scholarship Program Visitors at the Montgomery Farm Women's Cooperative Market near Washington D.C.

in Women's Africa Committee Records, 1958-1978, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 1, Folder 10, 1p.) (Northampton, MA) (1966) , 1 page(s)

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Ten Years of the Women's Africa Committee

written by Africa-America Institute, in Women's Africa Committee Records, 1958-1978, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 1, Folder 1, 12 pp.) (Northampton, MA) (1969) , 12 page(s)

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Zelia Ruebhausen and Margaret Kenyatta (daughter of Jomo Kenyatta), 1964

in Women's Africa Committee Records, 1958-1978, of Sophia Smith Collection. Women's History Archive (Box 1, Folder 8, 2p.) (Northampton, MA), Gilbert Pictorial Enterprise (1964) , 2 page(s)

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