Papers: Series III-V, 1839-1984 (inclusive).

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Papers: Series III-V, 1839-1984 (inclusive).

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Series III, National Woman's Party, is divided into administrative and program records. Administrative records include by-laws, legal documents, and minutes; membership; financial; and correspondence. Programs include records of committees, research on the legal status of women, ERA campaigns, and other aspects of the NWP's work. Series IV, World Woman's Party, is organized similarly to the NWP series. Administrative records include minutes, reports, resolutions, a broadcast tape of the opening ceremonies of the headquarters in Geneva, and photographs. Membership consists of correspondence, receipts, and membership cards. Among the financial records are correspondence, receipts, account books, and check registers. Part of general correspondence is organized by correspondent but the bulk is arranged chronologically. WWP program material includes publicity; correspondence about certain refugee cases; and correspondence, reports, minutes, and publications of other organizations. Series V, Other international activities, includes correspondence; photographs, reports, and minutes from the Women's Consultative Committee on Nationality; speeches and articles by NWP members and others on nationality and the Equal Rights Treaty; NWP publications about its international activities; correspondence and multiple drafts of the survey of nationality laws undertaken by the Inter-American Commission of Women; background material on the World Conference on the Codification of International Law at The Hague and on treaties and laws concerning women; and clippings about the international feminist movement, equal rights, and nationality.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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