Gladys Avery Tillett Papers, 1700s-2000

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Gladys Avery Tillett Papers, 1700s-2000

Gladys Avery Tillett Papers, 1700s-2000

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Gladys Avery Tillett of Charlotte, N.C., was vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, 1940-1950; co-director of Frank Porter Graham's senatorial campaign, 1950; United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1961-1968; proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment; and activist for other political and social causes. The collection includes correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, news clippings, photographs, sound recordings, and other materials documenting Gladys Avery Tillett's work for the Democratic Party, the Frank Porter Graham campaign, the United Nations, the women's movement, the Young Women's Christian Association, and other causes. Significant correspondents include Molly Dewson and Lorena A. Hickock, with whom Tillett worked in the Women's Division of the Democratic Party; friend, teacher, and fellow Democrat Harriet Elliott; Eleanor Roosevelt; and Tillett's husband, lawyer Charles Walter Tillett.

21,000 items (59.5 linear feet)

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection