Audio collection, 1966-1991

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Audio collection, 1966-1991

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00316/catalog

Abstract

Audiotapes of National Organization for Women national board meetings, national conference proceedings and workshops, interviews, and speeches.

Extent

1,762 audiotapes, 2 phonograph records

Holding Repository

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6386396

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Boyer, Gene (Genevieve Cohen), 1925-2003

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Boyer, born Gene Cohen in 1925, grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Milwaukee. She learned business skills at a young age from her father, who managed a number of shoe stores, and went on to study journalism at UW-Madison. In 1945, Gene married Burt Boyer. The couple opened a furniture store in Beaver Dam and ran it successfully for 32 years. Although she was an equal partner in the business, Gene was excluded from the local chamber of commerce because she was a woman. That experience mov...

Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite, 1932-

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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (born October 5, 1932) is an American politician and lawyer from California. She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress. She served in the U.S. Congress from 1973 until January 1979. She was the Los Angeles County Supervisor representing the 2nd District (1992–2008). She has served as the Chair three times (1993–94, 1997–98, 2002–03). Her husband is William Burke, a prominent philanthropist and creator of the Los Angeles Marathon. ...

Mondale, Walter F. (Walter Frederick), 1928-2021

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Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928-April 19, 2021) is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A United States senator from Minnesota (1964–1976), he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 United States presidential election, but lost to Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale carried his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. In Octob...

Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 1937-

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Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American politician serving as a non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia. As a non-voting member, Norton may serve on committees, introduce legislation, as well as speak on the House floor; however, she is not permitted to vote on the final passage of any legislation. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Eleanor K. Holmes was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Vela (née...

Leaf, Adrienne

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Barbara Duke.

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Carabillo, Toni

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Toni Carabillo and Judith Meuli were both active in the National Organization for Women. Carabillo was president of the Southern California Chapter and Meuli served on NOW's Policy and Planning Committee; both were editors of the National NOW Times. From the description of Chronology of "the split," 1991. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008460 ...

Collins, Mary Jean, 1939-

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An active member of the National Organization for Women, Mary Jean Collins was Midwest Regional Director (1970-1972), president and executive director of Chicago NOW (1978-1980), and co-director of the NOW equal rights (ERA) campaign. A member of the National Board, she was in charge of task forces (1972-1975) and she also served as National Action vice-president where she focussed on lesbian and minority women's rights as well as reproductive choice and pay equity. Collins was also on the board...

Anne L. Lang.

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Gandy, Kim

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National Organization for Women

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See the finding aid for the Records of the National Organization for Women, MC 496. From the guide to the Videotape collection, 1977-1988, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) The National Organization for Women (NOW) is a feminist activist organization founded in 1966. From the guide to the NOW products order form, circa 1992, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) The National Organization for Women began in Jun...

Naomi Ross.

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Judy Avner.

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Diane Carlson.

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Bonk, Kathy, 1953-

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Kathy Bonk was coordinator of the National Organization for Women's Media Task Force. In 1988 she founded Communications Consortium Media Center, a nonprofit organization helping other organizations use communications strategies for policy change. From the description of Papers of NOW officers, 1975-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122593230 ...

Epstein, Vivian Sheldon

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Kristin Lems

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Beverly Campbell

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Nellie Gray

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Kathy George.

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Susan Thompson.

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Cynthia Reed.

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Kate Clinton.

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Barbara Alexander.

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Decrow, Karen

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Hall, Katie, 1938-2012

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Katie Beatrice Hall (April 3, 1938 – February 20, 2012) was an American educator in Gary, Indiana, and a politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1982 to 1985. When Hall was sworn into federal office on November 2, 1982, she became the first black woman from Indiana elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Hall represented Indiana's 1st Congressional District in the final months the 97th Congress and an entire two-year term in the 98th Congress from 1983 to 1985. She...

Sara Nelson.

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Smith, Mary Margaret

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Sue Punjack.

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Mary Lord

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Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010

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Social worker. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy I. Height : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740864 Civil rights activist; YWCA worker From the description of Dorothy Irene Height papers, 1937-2005 (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 463485177 Dorothy Irene Height was born March 24, 1912 in Richmond, Virginia to Fannie Burroughs and James Height. Both of Height's paren...

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Holly Knox

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Catharine MacKinnon.

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Priscilla Alexander.

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Dorothy Semenow-Garwood

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Webb, Kathy

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Harris, Katie

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Cohan, Alice

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Pat Butler.

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Grace Mary Stern.

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Goldsmith, Judy

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Wells-Schooley, Jean

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Randall Terry.

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Rita Addessa.

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Molina, Gloria

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Gloria Molina, b. 1948, became the first Latina member of the California State Assembly in which she served from from 1982-1987, after which she was elected to the Los Angeles City Council, the first Latina member to be elected. In January 1991 she was elected to a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. From the description of Oral history interview with Gloria Molina, 1990 : oral history transcript / by Carlos Vásquez. Oral History Program, University of California, L...

Schlafly, Phyllis, 1924-2016

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Phyllis Schlafly was born 15 August 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. The mother of six, she is an attorney and a conservative political activist. Her biggest platforms have been against equal rights amendments and feminist views. She founded the Eagle Forum and the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund in 1972 and remains in the office of their president today. From the guide to the Phyllis Schlafly reports, 1989-1991, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Hernandez, Aileen C.

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Civil rights, union and women's rights activist Aileen Clarke Hernandez was born Aileen Clarke on May 23, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York. Her Jamaican-born parents, theatrical seamstress Ethel Louise Hall Clarke and Garveyite brushmaker Charles Henry Clarke, named their daughter for Aileen Pringle, a film actress. Hernandez, who grew up in the ethnically-mixed Bay Ridge neighborhood of New York City, attended elementary school at P.S. 176 and graduated in 1943 as school newspaper editor, vice presi...

Butler, Twiss

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Cassiano, Inez

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Alexander, Priscilla.

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Dixie Lee Johnson.

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Suzy Sutton.

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Erma Hunter Brown.

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Barbara Timmer

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Brenda Frazier.

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Alice Chapman.

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Leslie Wolfe.

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Baker, Mary Ann

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Blakely, Mary Kay

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Appuzzo, Virginia

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Clarenbach, Kathryn F.

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As director of continuing education at the University of Wisconsin, Clarenbach initiated projects to improve women's education and to widen job opportunities through apprenticeship and vocational programs. She was a co-founder and board member of the National Organization for Women, chair of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and the first president of the National Association of Commissions for Women. Clarenbach also chaired the convening conference of the National Wome...

Audio collection, 1966-1991

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