Papers, 1959-1975 (inclusive).

Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69h6chb (person)

Jacob Koppel Javits (May 18, 1904 – March 7, 1986) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Javits served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York's 21st congressional district from 1947 to 1954, as the 58th Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from 1957 until 1981. After graduating from New York University School of Law, he established a law practice in New York City. During World War II, he serv...

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6039fz6 (person)

George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician, historian, U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. Among the medals besto...

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66j56vs (person)

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota. At one point he helped run his ...

Planned parenthood federation of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bp3xkr (corporateBody)

In 1921 Margaret Sanger founded the national lobbying organization, American Birth Control League (ABCL) which in 1942 became Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Between 1921 and 1942 the organization underwent two transformations. In 1923 Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB) for the purposes of dispensing contraceptives under the supervision of licensed physicians and studying their effectiveness. The ABCL provided institutional backing for ...

Smith, Ruth Proskauer, 1907-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t75c95 (person)

An advocate of family planning and legal abortion, Smith began her career in 1946 as a field worker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts where she later served as executive secretary. Moving to New York, she administered the family planning service at Mount Sinai Hospital (1953-55), and was executive director of the Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization (1955-64) and the Association for the Study of Abortion (1964-66). In 1967 she helped organize the National Ass...

Myers, Lonny, 1922-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm3wv3 (person)

Physician, social activist. From the description of Reminiscences of Lonny Myers (Caroline Rulon) and Sharon Wang : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608925 Lonny Myers (b. 1922) was a doctor, sexologist, activist, and author committed to issues of sexuality, reproduction, and gender. From the description of Lonny Myers papers, 1903-1988. (University of Illinois-Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 59713051...

Association for the Study of Abortion

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mq12xz (corporateBody)

Committee for the Cook-Leichter Bill.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6422wwx (corporateBody)

Nathanson, Bernard N., 1926-2011

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65747sh (person)

New Yorkers for Abortion Law Repeal

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gj5hq6 (corporateBody)

McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6154gks (person)

Educator, U.S. representative from Minnesota, U.S. senator from Minnesota, and author. From the description of Papers of Eugene J. McCarthy, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71064286 Eugene J. McCarthy served as a U.S. Congress member (Democratic Farmer-Labor) from Minnesota's fourth district (1949-1958) and as U.S. senator from Minnesota (1959-1970). He sought the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1968 against Lyndon B....

Radcliffe College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf9p18 (corporateBody)

Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vf7ngv (person)

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was the brother of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senator Edward Moore Kennedy. Kennedy and his brothers were born into a wealthy,...

James MacGregor Burns

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t441jr (person)

Muskie, Edmund S., 1914-1996

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc417s (person)

Governor of Maine, U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of state, of Waterville, Me.; d. 1996. From the description of Christmas card, 1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926049 United States senator from Maine. From the description of Address : at water symposium, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1966 June 15. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33841361 Politician, governor of Maine, U.S. senator from Maine, and U.S. Secretary of State; d....

Abortion Law Reform Association.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rz5c50 (corporateBody)

Abortion Rights Association.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fr5wdg (corporateBody)

Kennedy, Edward Moore, 1932-2009

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c3qcm (person)

Edward Moore Kennedy (b. Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Mass.-d. Aug. 25, 2009), graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in government in 1956, and received his LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. He was elected democratic senator from Massachusetts in 1962, served until his death in August 2009. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County from 1961 to 1962, and sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1980....

National Abortion Rights Action League

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b1gzv (corporateBody)

NARAL is a national lobbying and membership organization which was devoted to obtaining, and later to maintaining, the availability of safe, legal abortions. The initials stood for the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws from the organization's founding in 1969 until 1973, when the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made abortion legal. From the guide to the [Videotape collection] [videorecording], 1977-1992, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) A n...

Human Betterment Association for Voluntary Sterilization (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c7wh2 (corporateBody)

State Communities Aid Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62c4xrs (corporateBody)

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6387zpq (person)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

National Conference on Social Welfare. Forum

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g19pkt (corporateBody)

Records of the NCSW's Project on the Federal Social Role, which investigated the role of the federal government in relation to issues such as social policy, taxation, social security, medicare, privatization, race, employment, and democratic. Alan Pifer and Forrest Chisman directed the project. From the description of National Conference on Social Welfare records, supplement 2, 1983-1987. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63291469 From the guide to ...

Means, Cyril C., Jr.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zg9p3c (person)

Vander Veer, Emily A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g3gct (person)