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Women's Resource & Action Center
The Women’s Resource and Action Center, also known as WRAC, is an organization dedicated to the equality and well-being of female students at the University of Iowa and members of the Iowa City community. It provides resources and information that are helpful for the everyday activities of women and as a source of entertainment and subject matter relevant to women.〔Women's Resource and Action Center records, Iowa Women’s Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City〕
==History==
Originally called the Women’s Liberation Front in 1971, WRAC was established to promote women’s rights and equality, and allow women to meet other women as friends, classmates, coworkers, etc. WRAC’s website states that members of the organization “met to discuss their shared oppression as women and search for solutions to their common problems.” In 1974, the group changed its name to that which it currently holds: Women’s Resource and Action Center. When the organization was created, the members made it an issue to function collectively rather than have an officer team or executive board, to encourage women’s empowerment and not be discriminatory.〔104/6 Box 21, Folder: Archival Research WRAC History, NO.1 1972 Women’s Resource Newsletter〕 After WRAC had successfully established itself as a feminist group in the Iowa City community, it began to reach out to other oppressed groups, diversifying their human rights values to expand to groups including “people of color, people with disabilities, the elderly, and lesbians and gays.(put source)” Originally, as a source of education and entertainment, WRAC held workshops and programs such as counseling, divorce rights, abortion and birth control, women’s health information, women’s studies, self-defense, economics, etc. These workshops and programs were beneficial to all women involved with WRAC because of the knowledge they were obtaining.
In the early 1980s, the Women Against Racism Committee (WAR) was formed as a branch of WRAC, and populated primarily by the members of WRAC, as well as other women in the Iowa City community. The original purpose of the organization was to critique the racism WRAC members perceived, and to raise awareness of the harmful effects of internalized racism. These actions evolved into the study of all forms of oppression, including sexism, disability-related discrimination, and homophobia, especially among colored women. As WAR grew in popularity, it brought in renowned speakers, such as Winona LaDuke and Natalie Wong to the University of Iowa campus to speak on behalf of the oppressed populations. In 1988, WAR held its first and only national conference, “Parallels and Intersections: Racism and Other Forms of Oppression.” Participation in the Women Against Racism Committee declined throughout the 1990s until it was shut down in 1998.〔Women Against Racism Committee Records, Box 1, Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa〕
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