Harriet F. Pilpel Papers 1913-1981

ArchivalResource

Harriet F. Pilpel Papers 1913-1981

Lawyer; birth control advocate; and abortion rights advocate. The Harriet F. Pilpel Papers are primarily related to her professional work with sexual and reproductive rights. The collection is essentially Pilpel's reference files, and is primarily composed of court documents from various legal cases on the state and federal level. The papers allow for a comprehensive, state-to-state comparison of a variety of sexual and reproductive laws, and provides a sense of the debates going on in individual states and the country regarding sexual and reproductive issues. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, reports, legislation, notes, journal and newspaper articles, and court documents.

28 boxes; (13.75 linear ft.)

eng,

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6322754

Related Entities

There are 9 Entities related to this resource.

Pilpel, Harriet F. (Harriet Fleischl), 1911-1991

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6941jwn (person)

>Harriet Fleischl Pilpel (December 2, 1911 – April 23, 1991) was an American attorney and women's rights activist. She wrote and lectured extensively regarding the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and reproductive freedom. Pilpel served as general counsel for both the American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood. During her career, she participated in 27 cases that came before the United States Supreme Court. Pilpel was involved in the birth control movement and the pro-choice m...

Wade, Henry, 1914-2001

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g55fzq (person)

Henry Menasco Wade (November 11, 1914 – March 1, 2001) was a Texas lawyer who served as district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987. As such, he participated in two of the most notable U.S. court cases of the 20th century - the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade. In addition, Wade was district attorney when Randall Dale Adams, the subject of the documentary film The Thin Blue Line, was convicted ...

Tietze, Christopher, 1908-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n59d2q (person)

Edelin, Kenneth, 1939-2013

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hh9rqk (person)

Kenneth C. Edelin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine, was born in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1939. Educated in segregated Washington schools through the eighth grade, Edelin graduated from the private Stockbridge School in Western Massachusetts. After graduating from Columbia University in 1961, Edelin taught math and science at Stockbridge School for two years; he then attended Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he earned ...

Planned parenthood federation of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp3xkr (corporateBody)

In 1921 Margaret Sanger founded the national lobbying organization, American Birth Control League (ABCL) which in 1942 became Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Between 1921 and 1942 the organization underwent two transformations. In 1923 Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB) for the purposes of dispensing contraceptives under the supervision of licensed physicians and studying their effectiveness. The ABCL provided institutional backing for ...

Roe, Jane, 1947-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x09dw7 (person)

American Civil Liberties Union

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x61pb (corporateBody)

Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

National Abortion Rights Action League

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b1gzv (corporateBody)

NARAL is a national lobbying and membership organization which was devoted to obtaining, and later to maintaining, the availability of safe, legal abortions. The initials stood for the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws from the organization's founding in 1969 until 1973, when the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made abortion legal. From the guide to the [Videotape collection] [videorecording], 1977-1992, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) A n...

Planned Parenthood-World Population (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zp8z58 (corporateBody)