[Audio collection] [sound recording]. 1966-1991.

Boyer, Gene (Genevieve Cohen), 1925-2003

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Boyer, born Gene Cohen in 1925, grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Milwaukee. She learned business skills at a young age from her father, who managed a number of shoe stores, and went on to study journalism at UW-Madison. In 1945, Gene married Burt Boyer. The couple opened a furniture store in Beaver Dam and ran it successfully for 32 years. Although she was an equal partner in the business, Gene was excluded from the local chamber of commerce because she was a woman. That experience mov...

Mondale, Walter F. (Walter Frederick), 1928-2021

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Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (January 5, 1928-April 19, 2021) is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A United States senator from Minnesota (1964–1976), he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 United States presidential election, but lost to Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale carried his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. In Octob...

Chapman, Alice I.

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Goldsmith, Judith

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Bonk, Kathy, 1953-

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Kathy Bonk was coordinator of the National Organization for Women's Media Task Force. In 1988 she founded Communications Consortium Media Center, a nonprofit organization helping other organizations use communications strategies for policy change. From the description of Papers of NOW officers, 1975-1988 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122593230 ...

Collins, Mary Jean, 1939-

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An active member of the National Organization for Women, Mary Jean Collins was Midwest Regional Director (1970-1972), president and executive director of Chicago NOW (1978-1980), and co-director of the NOW equal rights (ERA) campaign. A member of the National Board, she was in charge of task forces (1972-1975) and she also served as National Action vice-president where she focussed on lesbian and minority women's rights as well as reproductive choice and pay equity. Collins was also on the board...

Fuller, Georgia E.

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Georgia Fuller was appointed co-coordinator of the National Organization for Women's Ecumenical Task Force on Women and Religion in 1976. In the early 1980s, she was part of a group of women from the Arlington, Virginia, area that participated in a series of high profile protests in order to advance the Equal Rights Amendment. From the description of Papers of NOW officers, 1973-1977 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122521483 ...

Cohan, Alice.

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Carter, Jimmy, 1924-

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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy, a registered nurse. He was educated in the Plains public schools, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a ...

Carabillo, Toni

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Toni Carabillo and Judith Meuli were both active in the National Organization for Women. Carabillo was president of the Southern California Chapter and Meuli served on NOW's Policy and Planning Committee; both were editors of the National NOW Times. From the description of Chronology of "the split," 1991. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008460 ...

Decrow, Karen

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Alda, Alan, 1936-....

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American actor. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated [n.p.], 6 April 1992, to Joan Peyser, 1992, April 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270991911 ...

Molina, Gloria

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Gloria Molina, b. 1948, became the first Latina member of the California State Assembly in which she served from from 1982-1987, after which she was elected to the Los Angeles City Council, the first Latina member to be elected. In January 1991 she was elected to a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. From the description of Oral history interview with Gloria Molina, 1990 : oral history transcript / by Carlos Vásquez. Oral History Program, University of California, L...

Wells-Schooley, Jean.

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Operation Rescue (Organization)

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National Organization for Women

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in Washington D.C. in 1966, and incorporated in 1967. The organization was formed to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of society, assuming all privileges and responsibilities in fully equal partnership with men. Local chapters were formed throughout the country and task forces were set up to deal with problems of women in areas such as employment, education, religion, poverty, law, politics, and image in the media....

Gandy, Kim.

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Appuzzo, Virginia.

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Clarenbach, Kathryn F.

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As director of continuing education at the University of Wisconsin, Clarenbach initiated projects to improve women's education and to widen job opportunities through apprenticeship and vocational programs. She was a co-founder and board member of the National Organization for Women, chair of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, and the first president of the National Association of Commissions for Women. Clarenbach also chaired the convening conference of the National Wome...

Smeal, Eleanor

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Smeal was Chair of the Woman's Trust. From the description of TLS, 1985 April 16 : Washington, D.C. to Nancy Magnuson / Ellie Smeal. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 29463769 ...