Lucile Heming Koshland : citizen participation in government.

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Lucile Heming Koshland : citizen participation in government.

Interview with Koshland, civic worker and national board member of the League of Women Voters, by Harriet Nathan, 1968, as part of the Northern California Jewish Community Series sponsored by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

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Koshland, Lucile Heming, 1898-1978

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Political and civic volunteer, Lucile Wolf Heming Koshland (1898-1978) was born in New York City, graduated from Barnard College in 1919, and married Charles E. Heming, who died in 1929. In 1959 she married Daniel Koshland, Sr., former president of Levi-Strauss, and moved to California, where she lived until her death. She was president of the League of Women Voters of New York State, and first president (1947-1953) of the Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Fund (later the Overseas Educat...

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