Women and Leadership Archives
Women's Legacy
The Women and Leadership Archives (WLA) collects, preserves, and makes available permanently valuable records of women and women's organizations, which document women's lives, roles, and contributions.
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EVENT April 15: Dr. Noliwe Rooks
Join us on April 15, 2025, for a talk by Dr. Noliwe Rooks: "I Leave You Hope, I Leave You Faith, I Leave You Love" - The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune. During Bethune's life, she served as an advisor to four U.S. Presidents, founded a university and hospital, led civil-rights organizations, was the first Black person to head a federal agency and embraced commemoration, graphic novels, and archival collecting as a way to ensure that moments and figures from the past were available to inspire future generations of Black women, children and people.
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The WLA Remembers Joan Heath Fortner
Ms. Fortner passed away November 10, 2024. She was an alumna of Mundelein College (1954) and Loyola Chicago (1979) and worked as a designer in New York’s fashion industry. She was active in art organizations in the Chicago area and devoted her professional career to elementary education and the arts. Learn more about her collection at the WLA.
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