Ivy Bottini papers 1955-1998 1974-1990

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Ivy Bottini papers 1955-1998 1974-1990

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Journals, correspondence, contracts, clippings,notes, minutes, fliers, pamphlets, photographs, audiovisual material, etchings,t-shirts, buttons, and other material from comedian, artist and lesbianfeminist, Ivy Bottini. One of the founding members of the National Organizationfor Women (NOW), Bottini was a married mother of two before coming out as alesbian in 1968. She has been a community leader for numerous activist causesand organizations, including the No on Briggs and No on LaRouche campaigns, theLos Angeles Police Department's Gay and Lesbian Police Advisory Task Force,AIDS Project Los Angeles, the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, andthe affordable LGBT senior housing project, Triangle Square. The bulk ofBottini's collection is material relating to her comedy career, herconsciousness-raising seminars, and her work for NOW and various LGBT causes.The collection also includes her art works; recordings of a radio program shehosted, called ; and her collection oft-shirts and buttons from feminist and LGBT organizations. It's a Gay Life

11.2 linear feet.; (6 archive cartons + 3 archive boxes + 5 archive flat boxes + 1 mapdrawer)

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National Organization for Women

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in Washington D.C. in 1966, and incorporated in 1967. The organization was formed to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of society, assuming all privileges and responsibilities in fully equal partnership with men. Local chapters were formed throughout the country and task forces were set up to deal with problems of women in areas such as employment, education, religion, poverty, law, politics, and image in the media....

Bottini, Ivy, 1926-

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Biography Ivy was born on August 15, 1926, to a working class family in Long Island, New York. In 1944, she studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and later went on to a career in graphic design, working as an illustrator and art director for Newsday . In 1951, she married Edward Bottini. She gave birth to her first daughter, Laura, in 1953, and her second daughter, Lisa, in 1956. By the mid-1960s, Bottini became involved in t...