Papers of Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald, 1893-2004 (inclusive).

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Papers of Cynthia Rich and Barbara Macdonald, 1893-2004 (inclusive).

Collection includes Rich's diaries, 1990-1994; family papers of Macdonald; correspondence with family, friends, writers, activists, and Rich's students; "Beyond My Mother's House," an autobiography by Macdonald with an account by Rich of her last years with Alzheimer's; "This Driving Force in Me: the Lesbian Lives of Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich," a memoir of correspondence between Macdonald and Rich; and unpublished writings, photographs, scrapbooks, fan mail, and reviews of Rich and Macdonald; conference material and records of organizations in which they were active. The collection also includes records of the Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers.

5.8 linear ft.

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Collected by Fr. Victor Salandini. From the description of Clippings from first convention, 1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019377 The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was founded in 1962 by César E. Chávez and other Mexican-American community activists in Delano, California. In 1966, the NFWA merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to form the United Farm Workers of America, the first successful and largest effort ever to organize ag...

Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984

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Barbara Deming, author and activist, was born on July 23, 1917, in New York City, the daughter of admiralty lawyer Harold S. Deming (1883-1954) and former singer Katherine (Burritt) Deming (1891-?). The second of four children, Deming had three brothers: MacDonald, Quentin (Chip), and Angus (Bim). She grew up in New York City and on South Mountain Road in New City, N.Y., west of the Hudson River. The Poors (writer Bessie Breuer, painter Henry Varnum III, and their daughter, writer Annie) lived o...

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Media Watch (Organization)

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Nestle, Joan, 1940-....

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Holley, Kay.

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Morgan, Robin K., 1961-

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Radical feminist activist and poet. From the description of Portraits, n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 48633460 Robin Morgan is the author of many books, including Sisterhood is Powerful (1970) and Sisterhood is Global (1984). From the description of Papers, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007925 Feminist activist, author, poet, child star, and editor of MS. magazine. From the description of Robin Morgan ...

West Coast Old Lesbian Conference.

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Leake, Dorothy Van Dyke, 1893-1990

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Martin Luther King Tribute Coalition.

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Healey, Shevy.

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Old Lesbians Organizing for Change

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The book Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism by Barbara Macdonald and Cynthia Rich (1983), which exposed the harsh realities of ageism on old women, was the inspiration for the founding of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change. In April 1987, the First West Coast Conference by and for Old Lesbians in Southern California was held at the California State University Dominguez Campus in Carson, California. It was so successful that in August 1989, Old Lesbians in Northern Calif...

Hughes, Donna M.

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Kubie, Lawrence S. (Lawrence Schlesinger), 1896-1973

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Barnes, Alice, 1907-

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Simonton, Ann

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Henly, Carolyn Powell.

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Stokes, Ann

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Rich, Cynthia.

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Cynthia Rich (1933- ) and Barbara Macdonald (1913-2000) were writers, activists in lesbian feminist politics, and partners for 26 years. A graduate of Radcliffe College (A.B. 1956, A.M. 1958), Rich was married to Roy Glauber, a member of the physics department at Harvard; they had two children. Rich taught writing at Harvard for ten years beginning in the late 1960s, her courses focussing on sexism, homophobia, and racism. She was active in the peace and social justice movements as ...

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Meigs, Mary, 1917-2002

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Redman, Helen C.

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Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

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Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...

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Macdonald, Barbara, 1913-2000

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Smith, Barbara, 1946-....

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Craft, Nikki Murdick

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Women's Alliance.

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Toni A. H. McNaron was born on April 3, 1937 in Alabama. She earned her B.A. degree in 1958 from the University of Alabama, her M.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1960 and her Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. McNaron was an instructor at All Saints' College (Vicksburg, MS) (1959-1961) and a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin (1961-1963) before joining the faculty at the University of Minnesota as assistant professor of English in 1964. She was promoted to associ...