Subseries B. Annual conferences
Scope and Contents
Subseries B, Annual conferences, 1966-1998 (#23.1-26.55, 205.1-205.11), is arranged chronologically and contains planning records related to NOW's annual membership conferences, including calls to conference, conference planning committee meeting minutes, memos, conference reports, resolutions (drafts and final versions), national office candidate campaign literature, and related clippings and press materials. The completeness of these planning records varies from year to year. For conferences 1976-1978, NOW hired a professional service to provide transcriptions of conference plenary sessions. Membership counts are contained in this subseries; they provide the number of members both by chapter and by state in 1993. This subseries contains mostly printed material distributed to members at the conference, or general mailings to conference planners. Helene Weitzenkorn, a member of Boston NOW, provided some of the printed material from the 1980s; notes by Weitzenkorn are marked as such.
Dates
- Creation: 1959-2002
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1966-1998
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
TERMS OF USE
Access. The majority of the collection is unrestricted.
Access to folders #103.3-103.4 requires the written permission of NOW until January 1, 2017. Access to folders #67.13 and 87.58 requires the written permission of NOW until January 1, 2018. Access to folders #67.8-67.9 requires the written permission of NOW until January 1, 2019. Access to folder #108.36 requires written permission of NOW until January 1, 2020.
Grievance files and financial records are closed for 50 years. Certain confidential records are closed to all research use for specified periods; included are individual documents access to which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Time limits for closure of NOW Foundation records (Series XXII, #88.1-88.11) will be determined by mutual agreement between NOW and the Schlesinger Library at a future date; the finding aid notes that such records are closed pending negotiations.
As of December 2015, written permission of the National Organization for Women is required only for documents 20 years old or less.
Extent
206.27 linear feet ((185 cartons, 23 file boxes, 8 half file boxes, 14 file card boxes, 3 folio+ boxes) plus 10 folio folders, 5 folio+ folders, 3 oversize folders, 1 supersize folder, 136 photograph folders, 2 folio photograph folders, slides, 9 reels microfilm (M-152), and electronic records)Creator
- From the Collection: National Organization for Women (Organization)
Repository Details
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