Woman's Party Corporation Records 1918-1998 (bulk 1985-1995)

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Woman's Party Corporation Records 1918-1998 (bulk 1985-1995)

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Women's rights organization. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records, bylaws, notes, and printed matter relating chiefly to litigation between the Woman's Party Corporation and its parent group, the National Woman's Party.

11,480 items; 56 containers; 24 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356747

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Woman's Party Corporation

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Created by the National Woman's Party (NWP) in 1977 to collect contributions to finance the party's educational activities. In 1992, an Internal Revenue Service investigation revealed the tax-exempt corporation was providing funds to the National Woman's Party without proof that they were being used for educational purposes. The party's executive board attempted to dissolve the corporation and appropriate its assets. The corporation filed suit and the party filed countersuit, claiming breach of ...