Tucker and Myers Texas Council on Family Violence Records 1974-2001

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Tucker and Myers Texas Council on Family Violence Records 1974-2001

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Formed in 1978, the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) was the first statewide organization to address explicitly the issue of domestic violence. The Tucker and Myers Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) Records contains written records of the organization, as well as photographs and ephemera from the group. Items in the collection range in date from 1974 to 2001 and were collected by Debby Tucker and Toby Myers.

Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries

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Myers, Toby

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Tucker, Debby

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Texas Council on Family Violence

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Formed in 1978, the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) was the first statewide organization to address explicitly the issue of domestic violence. According to their 1995 by-laws, the group was organized for charitable purposes as a non-profit membership organization for autonomous, community-based battered women's shelters, related organizations, and concerned others. The TCFV's purposes are to assist and empower battered women and their children and to eliminate violence again...