Guide to the WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) Records, 1970-2016, (bulk 1991-1995)

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Guide to the WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) Records, 1970-2016, (bulk 1991-1995)

1970-2016

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_162/tam_162.html

The Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) Records contain organizing records, videos, photographs, and ephemera related to WHAM!'s support of women's health and access to abortion. The collection contains documentation from individual members of the group and records related to WHAM!'s collaboration with other organizations, particularly ACT UP and mainstream women's organizations, including Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the National Organization for Women. The collection, however, does not contain central administrative records of the organization, such as minutes or official correspondence. Instead, the collection reflects the decentralized and grassroots nature of WHAM!, which did not follow a hierarchical leadership structure, but rotated responsibilities of record keeping between weekly facilitators.

36.25 Linear Feet, 32.27 Gigabytes, 51 videocassettes, 7 audiocassettes

eng, Latn

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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