Miriam Sigel Friedlander: New York City Council and Women's Issues Papers undated

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Miriam Sigel Friedlander: New York City Council and Women's Issues Papers undated

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Miriam Sigal Friedlander (1914-2009) was a progressive activist who who represented the East Village and Lower East Side in the City Council as a Democract from 1974 to 1991. Friedlander also advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian issues, women, tenants and the homeless. Paul Friedlander, Miriam’s younger brother, died in the Spanish Civil War while serving in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. This completely unprocessed collection contains records of the Council's Committee on Women's Rights, which Friedlander chaired, her electoral campaigns, issues of the newsletter she produced as a City Council person and other materials relating to her City Council work, and materials relating to various women's issues, notably "Women Fighting Poverty" (two conferences, 1995, 1997), as well as sexual harassment, and to other issues in which she was involved. According to form New York City mayor Ed Koch, Friedlander was [at one time] a Communist and "on the board of the Bronx Communist Party." NOTE: The collection is stored offsite, anad must be requested seven days in advance.

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Friedlander, Miriam Sigel, 1914-2009

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