SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection provides information for only some portions of Jeannette Rankin's life. The best-documented period is her second term in Congress: five boxes of correspondence about her World War II vote, one box of other Congressional correspondence, and one cubic foot of 3x5 cards (apparently a list of Rankin correspondence). There is approximately one box each about her first term in Congress and her activities in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Over half the entire collection is...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The memorabilia collection of the Schlesinger Library contains buttons, pins, banners, games, stickers, t-shirts, and other objects collected by the Schlesinger Library. Objects document suffrage; gay, lesbian, and transgender rights; efforts to pass the Equal Rights Amendment; women candidates' political campaigns; women's and girls' organizations; demonstrations for reproductive rights; movements to end violence against women; and other women's issues. Additional objects are housed at the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The papers of Margo Rila include correspondence, flyers, questionnaires, clippings, t-shirts, photographs, etc., documenting her involvement with the San Francisco Sexual Freedom League, San Francisco Sex Information, and the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, as well as her work as a bisexual activist. Photographs include color slides of events during San Francisco's Summer of Love (1967) taken by Frank Esposito Rila. Most of the photographs in this collection are or will be...

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The records of the Cape Ann/North Shore Chapter of the National Organization for Women includes membership and financial records; meeting announcements and agendas; phone messages; flyers, fact sheets, and other mailings from Massachusetts NOW and the National Organization for Women; a t-shirt, bag, and a button; and an audiocassette. Files are arranged alphabetically.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection documents many aspects of Murray's professional and unpaid work, as well as some areas of her personal life. Information about areas in which the professional and personal aspects of Murray's life intersected can sometimes be found in two different series. For example, in addition to the papers about Murray's ancestors in the family section of Series I, Personal and biographical, family materials that Murray assembled while doing research for Proud...

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Davis discusses affirmative action, racism violence, Ronald Reagan and corporate interest, connections between racism and sexism, solidarity, antisemitism, the death penalty, police brutality, and grassroots movements. Includes audience question and answer session.

Scope and Contents: Delivered at "Revolutionary Women, 1787-1987" conference. Davis discusses the Iran-Contra affair, democracy, historical revolutionary women, inequality within the women's movement, unemployment, racist violence, and the importance of having a multiracial women's movement. Huerta discusses Hispanic women in the women's movement, H-2A visas, current issues in labor rights for farm workers, pesticide poisoning, corporate agriculture, and the third grape boycott. See also #92.7 for additional...

Scope and Contents: Subseries C. Individual task forces and Conference Implementation Committees (CICs), 1964-1991 (#42.32-50.79, 84.1-84.13), contains correspondence, memos, notes, minutes, agendas, reports, testimonies, resumes, printed material, etc. Because the names of task forces changed frequently, and many of the task forces evolved into Conference Implementation Committees with different names, folders are arranged alphabetically by issue, rather than by task force or Conference Implementation...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection documents many aspects of Murray's professional and unpaid work, as well as some areas of her personal life. Information about areas in which the professional and personal aspects of Murray's life intersected can sometimes be found in two different series. For example, in addition to the papers about Murray's ancestors in the family section of Series I, Personal and biographical, family materials that Murray assembled while doing research for Proud...

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Davis discusses movement for women's equality, terrorist assaults against abortion clinics; how reproductive rights is related to issues of race, class, and foreign policy; and the dangers of corporate reproductive technologies. She critiques the women's movement's myopic focus on abortion rights without considering issues faced by poor women or women of color such as sterilization.

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The collection consists of audiotapes of talks by speakers featured in the Schlesinger Library Luncheon Series.