National Organization for Women

Papers of lesbian feminist activist Dolores Bargowski include photographs, letters, writings, and minutes, position papers, statements, etc., of organizations with which she was affiliated.

Additional records of Boston N.O.W., 1970-2005

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 632

Overview:

Additional records of the Boston Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) document members' activism for reproductive rights, economic equality, ending violence against women, etc.

Records of Boston N.O.W., 1967-1990

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: 77-M13--96-M48: T-187

Overview:

Correspondence, minutes, reports, audiotapes, etc., of Boston National Organization for Women, an organization working for legal, economic, and social equality for women.

Papers of Barbara Deming, 1886-1995

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 408: T-248

Overview:

Correspondence, writings, etc., of Barbara Deming, feminist lesbian author and activist.

Papers of Catherine Shipe East, 1941-1996

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 477: T-264: CD-131

Overview:

Papers of government official and feminist activist Catherine East

Papers of Elizabeth Farians, 1880-2013 (inclusive), 1942-2013 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 866: CD-88: DVD-115: T-515: Vt-276

Overview:

Writings, correspondence, and papers collected and created by theologian, feminist, animal rights advocate, and social justice activist Elizabeth Farians.

Papers of Betty Friedan, 1933-1985

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 575: T-97: T-125: Vt-1: Phon-7

Overview:

Papers of Betty Friedan, feminist, activist, and author.

Papers of Sonia Pressman Fuentes, ca.1929-2009 (inclusive), 1955-2009 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 612: CD-40: T-361: Vt-167

Overview:

Correspondence, transcripts of speeches and other writings, articles and clippings, and notes of attorney, women's rights activist, writer, and public speaker, Sonia Pressman Fuentes.

Papers of Elinor C. Guggenheimer, 1959-1980

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: 77-M162--80-M255

Overview:

Articles, speeches, correspondence, etc., of Elinor Coleman Guggenheimer, public official and civic worker.

Papers of Barbara Hays, 1973-2009

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 688

Overview:

Correspondence, NOW national conference files, memorabilia, etc., of NOW activist and staff member Barbara Hays.

Papers of Wilma Scott Heide, 1968-1985

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 495

Overview:

Papers of Wilma Scott Heide, sociologist and chair and president of the National Organization for Women.

Audiotape collection of Frances Arick Kolb, 1979-1981

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: T-312

Overview:

Audiocassettes of interviews with former NOW officers and members concerning history of NOW.

Papers of Shelah Gilbert Leader, 1961-2003

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 992

Overview:

Papers of Shelah Gilbert Leader document her work as recording secretary for the United States National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year; and include Leader's writings on women.

Papers of Priscilla Marie Tremper Leith, 1973-2013

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 969

Overview:

Equal Rights Amendment material of journalist and local political activist Priscilla Marie Tremper Leith.

Papers of Florence Luscomb, 1856-2001

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 394: T-53: T-70: T-177: Phon 14

Overview:

Papers of architect, suffragist, and political activist, Florence Luscomb.

Moving image collection of the National Organization for Women, 1974-2006

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: Vt-241; MP-34; DVD-7

Overview:

Videotapes, motion pictures, and DVDs documenting the National Organization for Women's (NOW) conferences, marches and rallies, and political activism, as well as its role as plaintiff in NOW v. Scheidler.

Papers of Pauli Murray, 1827-1985

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 412: T-194: T-245

Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Pauli Murray, lawyer, activist, and first African-American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest.

National Institute for Women of Color, 1977-1991

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 876: T-520

Overview:

Collection includes correspondence, minutes, reports, grant applications, photographs, conference materials, etc documenting the administration of the National Institute for Women of Color.

Additional records of the National Organization for Women, 1970-2011

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: MC 666

Overview:

Additional records of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the largest feminist organization in the United States.

Audio collection of the National Organization for Women, 1966-1991

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

Collection Identifier: T-29

Overview:

Audiotapes of National Organization for Women national board meetings, national conference proceedings and workshops, interviews, and speeches.