Papers, 1969-1975

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is a radical student group that descended from the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) which was founded in 1905. The ISS changed its name in 1921 to the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), a social-democratic educational and organizational group. Its student branch, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID), merged with National Student League in 1935 to form American Student Union (ASU) but soon split over ASUs alleged communist affiliati...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Gordon, Linda, 1940-

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Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historian. She lives in New York City and in Madison, Wisconsin. She won the Marfield Prize for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, and the Antonovych Prize for Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine (SUNY Press, 1983). An active participant in the women’s-liberation movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Gordon and her long-time collaborator Rosalyn Baxandall edited two books providing crucial views of that movement’s contr...

Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879

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Sarah Josepha Hale, née Sarah Josepha Buell, (born Oct. 24, 1788, Newport, N.H., U.S.—died April 30, 1879, Philadelphia, Pa.), American writer who, as the first female editor of a magazine, shaped many of the attitudes and thoughts of women of her period. Sarah Josepha Buell married David Hale in 1813, and with him she had five children. Left in financial straits by her husband’s death in 1822, she embarked on a literary career. Her poems were printed over the signature Cornelia in local journal...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

November Action Coalition

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Bay Area Women's Union.

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Nancy Grey Osterud, 1948-

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Nancy Grey Osterud was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 15, 1948, the daughter of Kenneth Leland and Dorothy Wellington Osterud; she graduated from Radcliffe College in 1971. She was a member of the Boston women's collective Bread and Roses, Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the November Action Coalition, which protested on campus against U.S. action in Vietnam. She spent the summer of 1970 in Seattle, organizing the Anna Louise Strong Brigade (a ...

Anna Louise Strong Brigade.

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Ansley, Fran

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A graduate of Radcliffe College (1969), Frances Lee Ansley was a founding member of Bread and Roses, a women's liberation organization officially founded in Cambridge, Mass., in 1969. Made up of consciousness-raising groups devoted to personal and political understanding of the status and condition of women, Bread and Roses sought to educate others by sponsoring various events, including talks at high schools and colleges, and by investigating and protesting instances of "sexism." Ansley has bec...

Tax, Meredith

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Meredith Tax was born in Wisconsin on September 18, 1942. She was educated in the Milwaukee public school system and at Brandeis University, where she graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright fellowships. She then studied at the University of London where she became involved in the anti-war movement. Returning to the U.S. in 1968, she continued her anti-war activism and was one of the founding members of Boston's Bread and Roses collective, a s...

Socialist Feminist Caucus of Women of Brown United.

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Tepperman, Jean, 1945-

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Jean Tepperman, poet, teacher, writer, and secretary, was born in Syracuse, New York, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1966. While in college she worked with Students for a Democratic Society at the Dudley Street Action Center in Roxbury, Mass. Members of SDS formed Mothers for Adequate Welfare. From 1966 to 1968, she was a member of JOIN (Jobs Or Income Now) Community Union in Chicago, doing block organizing and other political work. Tepperman was also active in the anti-Vietnam War move...

Bread and Roses Collective

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