Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz Papers, 1956-2006

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Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz Papers, 1956-2006

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191853229

The Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz Papers include personal correspondence and emails (1963-2005), scrapbooks (1980s-2005), photographs (circa 1950s-2000), and materials relating to gay and lesbian rights, same-sex marriage, women's rights, and Berman's and Kurtz's activism with regard to these issues. The collection also includes audiovisual materials, production notes, and public relations materials pertaining to the documentary film about the couple's relationship, "Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House" (2002). The collection documents their personal lives, first as wives and mothers in traditional marriages and, later, as a lesbian couple and as grandmothers.

19.5 linear ft. (13 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959417

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Kurtz, Connie

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Dickson, Deborah

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Berman, Ruth, 1934-

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Ruth Berman and Connie Kurtz with their daughters, n.d. Ruth Berman was born in Brooklyn, NY on March 30, 1934 to Jeanette Zahner and Milton Green. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1951 and went on to earn her B.S. (1955) and her M.S. (1958) in Health and Physical Education from Brooklyn College. From 1971 to 1974, she was employed as a teacher and administrator at various middle schools and high schools in the New York City area, and at Brooklyn Colle...

Goldmacher, Donald.

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