Boston (Mass.)--Social conditions

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

Minutes, correspondence, flyers, financial material, etc., of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, New England's first rape crisis center.

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.

Reports, meeting minutes, incorporation papers, by-laws, correspondence, memos, grant applications, publications, financial records, photographs, video and audio recordings, press releases, and financial records of the Boston Women's Fund. Grant applications include pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and other publications from Boston-based grassroots community organizations for women.

Records of Boston women's social service organization Crittenton Women's Union.

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

Board records, financial documents, and correspondence of NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, the former Massachusetts affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Commonplace book and letters of Elisabeth Dwight Cabot, reformer.

Correspondence, articles, reports, etc., of Ethel Cohen, medical social worker.

Memoranda, reports, notes, etc., of Gail Rotegard, Boston city official.

Courtship correspondence of John A. Rooney, housebuilder, and Katharine Cusack Rooney, office worker.

Correspondence, photos, course notes, of Maida Herman Solomon, psychiatric social worker.

Correspondence, notebook, address books, photographs, etc., of social worker Margaret Wither Griffith.

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Marion Angeline Howlett, world traveler, lecturer, social worker, and journalist.

Curricula vitae, correspondence, photographs, etc., of Virginia Insley, medical social worker.

Minutes, reports, photographs, etc., of Denison House in Boston, Massachusetts, the third college settlement in the United States.

Records of Franklin Square House, a hotel for young working women and female students.

Records of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) document its efforts on behalf of women's rights and an end to violence against women through lobbying the state legislature, advocating before government agencies, and organizing public demonstrations.

Records include correspondence, minutes, financial accounts, student project proposals, and reports of Radcliffe College's Education for Action, which supported student work in community service and social action.

Annual reports, minutes, correspondence, etc., of the Home for the Aged (Boston, Mass.), originally the Association for the Relief of Aged and Indigent Females.

Minutes, correspondence, financial records, printed material, photographs, memorabilia, etc., from the Senior and Junior chapters of the Lebanese Syrian Ladies' Aid Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Minutes, reports, correspondence, etc., of North Bennet Street Industrial School (Boston, Mass.), a trade school and settlement house.

Correspondence, speeches, minutes, annual reports, deeds, programs, financial records, newsletters and other publications, press releases, photographs, a videotape, and clippings, etc., of the South Boston Neighborhood House.

Records of Womanspace, a Boston-based feminist therapy collective.

Concert and workshop posters and flyers, an account book, statement of principles, lyrics, play lists, etc., of Rock Against Sexism.