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Additional records of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women (U.S.), 1972-1985

Collection Identifier: 82-M189--86-M213: T-78
Overview:

Addenda to the records (79-M116--81-M121) of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women (U.S.).

African American beauty collection of the Schlesinger Library, ca.1942-1975

Collection Identifier: MC 1270
Overview:

Brochures, catalogs, price lists, advertisements, and product labels for health and beauty products marketed towards African American women; photographs of Black beauty pageant winners; and Black beauty pageant brochures, application forms, contest rules, and advice for contestants.

Papers of Marilyn Alexander, 1950-1954

Collection Identifier: A/A377
Overview: Collection includes a narrative of Marilyn Alexander's visit to Georgia to raise awareness for the Rosa Lee Ingram case as an unlawful conviction; a letter from Charles A. Pannell, chairman of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to Alexander regarding Ingram; a report on the Women's Committee for Equal Justice delegation visit to Georgia; and a February 1950 issue of Masses & Mainstream with an illustration by Charles White entitled "The Ingram...

Papers of Cessie Alfonso, 1989-2018

Collection Identifier: MC 1098
Overview:

The papers of Cessie Alfonso include biographical information, professional correspondence, training materials, biopsychosocial assessments, articles by her, and other materials.

Angela Y. Davis collection of the Schlesinger Library, 1969-1983

Collection Identifier: MC 1179: T-593: Vt-339
Overview:

Fliers, posters, press releases, videotapes, etc., by and about Angela Y. Davis compiled by the Schlesinger Library.

Papers of Gwendolyn C. Baker, 1942-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 880: DVD-129
Overview:

Correspondence, research, articles, speeches, records and other papers of educator, professor, and activist Gwendolyn C. Baker.

Papers of Ruth Batson, 1919-2009 (inclusive) 1951-2003 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 590: T-490
Overview:

Papers of Boston, Massachusetts, community and civil rights activist Ruth Batson.

Papers of De Ama Battle, 1970-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 931: DVD-90: MP-66
Overview:

Curricula, letters, flyers, programs, brochures, posters, awards, certificates, invitations, newsletters, clippings, photographs, and videos of dancer and educator De Ama Battle and her Massachusetts-based nonprofit arts education organization, the Art of Black Dance and Music.

Bill of sale for Phillis, Lizzy, Jenny, Laura, Esther, and Leah, enslaved women and girls, 22 February 1833

Collection Identifier: A/P872
Overview:

Bill of sale documenting the sale of six enslaved African American women and children in South Carolina in 1833.

Biographical files of the Black Women Oral History Project, ca.1879-2011

Collection Identifier: MC 916
Overview:

Articles, resumes, ephemera, and photographs providing additional biographical information about women interviewed for the Schlesinger Library's Black Women Oral History Project. Materials relate to family background, childhood, education, careers, and professional and voluntary accomplishments.

Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

Collection Identifier: OH-31: T-32
Overview:

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of 72 oral histories.

Records of Boston Young Women's Christian Association (Massachusetts), 1858-2005 (inclusive), 1858-1988 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: 89-M3--2015-M220
Overview:

Reports, minutes, correspondence, etc., of the Boston Young Women's Christian Association.

Poems of Ellen M. Brown, ca.1967-1968

Collection Identifier: A/B8775
Overview:

Eleven typed poems, some with annotations, written by Ellen M. Brown, participant in the Watts Writers' Workshop.

New York Coalition of 100 Black Women collection of Doris E. Chambers, 1979-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 1226
Overview:

New York Coalition of 100 Black Women event calendars, meeting agendas, committee reports, by-laws, mailings, and printed materials collected by Doris E. Chambers.

Clara Goldberg Schiffer print collection documenting working women, 1839-1994 (inclusive), 1851-1890 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: Gr-10
Overview:

19th century prints of women's work in the United States and abroad.

Clara Goldberg Schiffer print collection documenting working women, 1861-2000 (inclusive), 1861-1897 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: Gr-11
Overview:

19th century prints of women's work in the United States and abroad.

Family papers of Linda Crichlow White, 1907-2015 (inclusive), 1942-1987 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1233
Overview:

Diaries, correspondence, financial and educational records of members of extended African American family, primarily focused on seamstress, nurse, and federal government employee Goldie Glover Bruce.

Papers of Angela Y. Davis, 1937-2017 (inclusive), 1968-2006 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 940
Overview:

Writings, correspondence, speeches, and subject files of black feminist philosopher and prison abolitionist Angela Y. Davis.

Records of the Boston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 1942-1995

Collection Identifier: MC 654
Overview:

Records of the Boston Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority include correspondence, notes, reports, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed materials.

Dorothy Dandridge collection of the Schlesinger Library, 1954-1959

Collection Identifier: A/D178
Overview:

Black and white and colorized film stills from Dorothy Dandridge's 1954 film Carmen Jones and lobby cards advertising her 1959 film Tomango.

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 476
Overview:

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, African American writer, playwright, composer, biographer, teacher, civil rights and left-wing activist.

Feminist ephemera collection of the Schlesinger Library, 1922-2014

Collection Identifier: Pr-11
Overview:

Feminist flyers, pamphlets, directories, statements, bibliographies, and other printed materials.

Papers of Donna M. Finn, 1971-2014

Collection Identifier: MC 882: Vt-280
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, notes, projects, and master's thesis of Donna Finn, Boston-based activist and co-founder of the Dorchester Women's Committee.

Focus on Women Videotapes, 1983-1993

Collection Identifier: Vt-59
Overview:

Half-hour interviews aired on Focus on Women, a television show featuring women of achievement.

Friends of the Schlesinger Library Audiotape Collection, 1970-1996

Collection Identifier: RA.T-127
Overview:

Recordings of events sponsored by the Friends of the Schlesinger Library, whose contributions support library acquisitions and preservation.