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Women political activists--United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

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

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.

Letters to Ms., 1970-1998

Collection Identifier: MC 568: T-348
Overview:

Letters to the editor of Ms. magazine, including photographs, clippings, manuscripts, audiotapes, newsletters, printed material, and ephemera.

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

Collection Identifier: MC 666
Overview:

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

Papers of June Jordan, 1936-2002 (inclusive), 1954-2002 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 513
Overview:

The papers of June Jordan, poet, author, outspoken activist, champion of equal rights for African Americans and women, and professor.

Papers of Molly Dewson in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1915-1960

Collection Identifier: M-136, reel A1; WRC
Overview:

Correspondence, photograph, fliers, reports, etc., of Molly Dewson, suffragist and reformer. These papers are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

Papers of Vicki Gabriner, 1970-2014

Collection Identifier: MC 862
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, and work files of civil rights, peace, feminist and lesbian activist, Vicki Gabriner.

Papers of Pat Parker, 1944-1998

Collection Identifier: MC 861: T-523: Vt-293: Phon-70
Overview:

The papers of poet Pat Parker include journals; personal and professional correspondence; drafts; published and unpublished writings; reviews; articles; photographs; flyers, programs; publicity; periodicals; audiovisual material; and electronic records.

Records of Massachusetts NOW, 1970-2006

Collection Identifier: MC 580: T-381
Overview:

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 of the National Women's Education Fund, 1972-1997

Collection Identifier: 2001-M174
Overview:

Records of the National Women's Education Fund, a non-partisan, national training and information service for women and public leadership.

Papers of Adrienne Rich, 1927-1999

Collection Identifier: MC 1120
Overview:

Papers of Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher.

Audiotape collection of Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald, 1973-1990

Collection Identifier: T-338
Overview:

Audiotapes of Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald, writers, and activists in anti-ageism and lesbian feminist politics.

Papers of Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald, 1893-2004

Collection Identifier: MC 505
Overview:

Correspondence, photographs, writings, etc., of Barbara Macdonald, social worker, lesbian feminist activist, author, and Cynthia Rich, teacher, lesbian feminist activist, and author.

American women's rights movement interviews by Leila J. Rupp and Verta A. Taylor, 1979-1983

Collection Identifier: T-311: MC 635
Overview:

Collection contains audiotapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by Rupp and Taylor with women who played significant roles in the American women's rights movement.

Papers of Mary Lee Sargent, 1982-2004

Collection Identifier: MC 1110: T-424: Vt-219: DVD-97: MP-94
Overview:

Correspondence, flyers, notes, audiovisual material, photographs, legal documents, publicity, and clippings documenting actions organized by the Grassroots Group of Second Class Citizens and Women Rising in Resistance.

Schlesinger Library Luncheon Series audio collection, 1979-1987

Collection Identifier: T-118
Overview:

Audiotapes of talks by speakers featured in the Schlesinger Library Luncheon Series, 1979-1987. Most of the speakers are donors of manuscript collections housed at the library.

Records of Sojourner, 1920-2004 (inclusive), 1975-2002 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 586: T-351
Overview:

Records of the feminist newspaper Sojourner, including correspondence, administrative records, photographs, and promotional materials.

Records of Transition House, 1975-1991

Collection Identifier: 84-M18--91-M187: Vt-13
Overview:

Newsletters, programs, audiovisual materials, etc., of Transition House, a refuge for battered women and their children in Massachusetts.

Videotape collection of the National Organization for Women, 1977-1988

Collection Identifier: Vt-25
Overview:

Videotapes of interviews, marches, press conferences, etc., of the National Organization for Women, the largest feminist organization in the United States.

Woman Alive! Collection, 1974-1977

Collection Identifier: MC 421: Vt-30
Overview:

Videotapes and program books of "Woman Alive!," a collaboration between Ms. Magazine and public television.