Intersession Program on Women records, 1969.

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Intersession Program on Women records, 1969.

Transcripts of taped sessions of a conference on "Women Today" sponsored by the New York State College of Human Ecology (then the College of Home Economics), including transcript of a session on "The Black Woman in America"; memoranda; correspondence; schedules; agenda; and summaries and commentary on sessions.

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Home Economics began as part of the Extension Service in 1900 with the arrival of Martha Van Rensselaer and the establishment of the Farmers' Wives Reading Course. In 1903-1904 Martha Van Rensselaer and Anna Botsford Comstock taught three courses within the College of Agriculture at Cornell University, relating to home and family life. In 1907 the Department of Home Economics was established at Cornell, with Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose as its first instructors. In 1911 the two women bec...