Papers, 1947-1975.

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Papers, 1947-1975.

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Correspondence, reports, maps, plans, newspaper clippings, articles, notebooks, press releases, publications, interview (1953) with Adlai Stevenson, biographical materials, agendas, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to Tilton's far-ranging interests and Connecticut affairs, particularly in the separation of church and state in Connecticut and the U.S., and her opposition to the I-84/Bushnell Park Connector (1964-1967) and the preservation of Bushnell Park in Hartford. Subjects include Hartford urban development and city planning and various committees upon which she served including Commission on the City Plan, Connecticut Capitol Center Commission, State Capitol Government Center Committee, and Citizen's Charter, Election Laws, and Fine Arts commissions; her fight to uphold the separation of church and state including her association with American and Connecticut Civil Liberties unions and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and other legislation, and court cases in which she was involved; her presidency of League of Women Voters of Hartford; U.S. senator Thomas Dodd and his political career; birth control; the Black Panthers; Knights of Columbus; Submerged Lands Act, 1951-1954, steel mills in Connecticut, and other environmental issues; family affairs; her work as a real estate broker; and various world issues including international affairs, disarmament, and the peace movement.

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