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Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Additional papers of Sophie Hutchinson Drinker, 1911-1983

Collection Identifier: 84-M96
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (1351) of Sophie Hutchinson Drinker, musician, civic volunteer, historian, author, and feminist.

Additional records of League of Women Voters (Cambridge, Mass.), ca.1919-1977 (inclusive), 1925-1950 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 739
Overview:

Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Cambridge include board of director minutes and committee reports; annual meeting files; budgets; fundraising campaign files; committee subject files; and documentation of local Cambridge issues of interest to the League.

Audiotape collection of Esther Peterson, 1959-1990

Collection Identifier: T-60
Overview:

Audiotape collection of Esther Peterson, labor, education, women's rights, and consumer affairs advocate.

Papers of Bill Baird, 1930-2015 (inclusive), 1963-1993 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 831
Overview:

Date books, appointment calendars, biographical material, correspondence, clippings, clinic administrative records, patient records, etc., of Bill Baird, reproductive rights advocate.

Papers of Doris Fleischman Bernays, 1914-1977

Collection Identifier: 1072--77-M211
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of Doris Fleischman Bernays, author, editor, feminist, and public relations consultant.

Letters of Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, 1890-1894

Collection Identifier: A/B632a3a
Overview:

Letters of Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a Protestant minister in the United States.

Letter of Henry Browne Blackwell, 1879 June 30

Collection Identifier: A/B632h2
Overview:

Letter of suffragist and businessman Henry Browne Blackwell regarding the poll tax and the right to vote.

Letters of Henry Browne Blackwell, 1869-1892

Collection Identifier: A/B632h
Overview:

Handwritten letters of Henry Browne Blackwell.

Additional records of Boston N.O.W., 1970-2005

Collection Identifier: MC 632
Overview:

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.

Records of Boston N.O.W., 1967-1990

Collection Identifier: 77-M13--96-M48: T-187
Overview:

Correspondence, minutes, reports, audiotapes, etc., of Boston National Organization for Women, an organization working for legal, economic, and social equality for women.

Carol Riegelman Lubin Papers, 1909-2005

Collection Identifier: MC 726
Overview:

Biographical materials, personal and professional correspondence, reports, writings, speeches, and photographs of Carol Riegelman Lubin, primarily documenting her work with the International Labour Organization and other professional activities.

Catharine Waugh McCulloch papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1869-1945

Collection Identifier: A-68, Series VI: M-133, reels E13-25
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, suffragist and lawyer.

Records of Coyote, 1962-1989

Collection Identifier: 81-M32--90-M1
Overview:

Correspondence, position papers, photographs, etc., of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), an organization advocating the decriminalization of prostitution.

Papers of Catharine Deveney Dunham, 1887-1919

Collection Identifier: A-19
Overview:

Speeches by Catharine Deveney Dunham, a delegate-at-large of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Papers of Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1840-1974

Collection Identifier: MC 377: M-133
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, etc., of suffragist Matilda (Joslyn) Gage.

Papers of Dorothy I. Height, 1950-2004

Collection Identifier: MC 1121
Overview: Collection includes correspondence (some regarding Dorothy Height's trip to East Africa in 1960), speeches, notes on a workshop, printed material, photographs, and color slides, mostly from her work for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the National Council of Negro Women, and the Young Women's Christian Association. The photographs document a Delta Sigma Theta event in New York City in 1951; the color slides are mostly from her travels to West Africa and India, where she was visiting professor at...

Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, 1918-2001 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 631: T-185: Vt-24: Phon-11
Overview:

Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts include program research files, local League files, and administrative and financial records.

Papers of Burnita Shelton Matthews, 1926-1981

Collection Identifier: MC 318
Overview:

Scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, etc., of Burnita (Shelton) Matthews, suffragist and first woman to serve as a federal district judge.

Papers of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, 1877-1983

Collection Identifier: MC 378: M-133, reels E29-34
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, suffragist and lawyer.

Papers of Julie Melrose, 1972-2007

Collection Identifier: MC 1117: T-418: CD-63
Overview:

Writings, interviews, and files of Julie Melrose about anti-pornography, feminist writers, and women's issues at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Records of the National Abortion Rights Action League, 1968-1976

Collection Identifier: MC 313
Overview:

Records of the National Abortion Rights Action League, a national lobbying and membership organization devoted first to obtaining, and later to maintaining, the availability of safe, legal abortion.

Records of the National Organization for Women Cape Ann/North Shore Chapter, 1971-2013

Collection Identifier: MC 1168: T-544
Overview:

Cape Ann/North Shore Chapter of the National Organization for Women membership and financial records, meeting announcements and agendas, and flyers, fact sheets, and other mailings from Massachusetts NOW and the National Organization for Women.

Papers of Alma Lutz, 1927-1946

Collection Identifier: A-34
Overview:

Correspondence, reports, etc., of Alma Lutz, author and suffragist, and others involved in the abolitionist and suffrage movements.

Papers of Caroline K. Simon, 1917-1993 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 370: M-102: T-178: Phon-8: Phon-26
Overview:

Papers of Caroline K. Simon, lawyer, judge, and Secretary of State of New York.

Papers of Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, 1910-1977

Collection Identifier: MC 894
Overview:

Correspondence, articles, notes, etc., of Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, historian and civic worker.