New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project, 2004-2006.

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New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project, 2004-2006.

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This oral history collection consists of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted by Tamar Carroll for her dissertation on women's community activism in New York City, circa 1955-95 (for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Included are interviews with activists involved in Mobilization For Youth, one of the country's first anti-poverty agencies founded in 1957 on New York City's Lower East Side to combat juvenile delinquency such as Frances Fox Piven, Rosalyn Baxandall, attorneys Faith Colangelo and Nancy LeBlanc, and other MFY staff members. Also interviewed are members of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women (of Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sally Martinez Fisher and Ethel Velez.

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Mobilization for Youth

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Social service agency operating on the Lower East Side of New York City. Mobilization for Youth was conceived in 1957 and formally founded and funded in 1961. From the guide to the Mobilization for Youth Records, [ca. 1958]-1970., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Social service agency operating on the Lower East Side of New York City. Mobilization for Youth was conceived in 1957 and formally founded and funded in 1961. F...

Piven, Frances Fox

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Professor, political science; Political activist; Author; Social reformer. From the description of Papers 1957-1999. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 46453436 ...

National Congress of Neighborhood Women

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Neighborhood scene in Brooklyn, New York, circa 1980. Photograph by Janie Eisenberg. The National Congress of Neighborhood Women (NCNW) is a support network for grassroots women's organizations and community leaders dedicated to empowering, and providing a voice for, poor and working-class women working to improve their communities and their own status in low-income urban and rural areas on local, national, and international levels. The history of NCNW begins with the r...

Velez, Ethel (American association leader, born 1947)

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Fisher, Sally Martinez.

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Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939-2015

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Rosalyn Fraad "Ros" Baxandall was an American historian of women's activism and an active New York City feminist....