Ephemera collection, 1975-2001 (inclusive).

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Ephemera collection, 1975-2001 (inclusive).

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Collection contains sticker from the 1975 National Organization for Women conference, urging participants to vote for the Majority Caucus; a wooden token with the slogan "Illinois, Let's Get Around Tuit, ERA Yes," attached to card urging support for the Equal Rights Amendment; invitation to National Woman's Party memorial service for Alice Paul, held on July 20, 1977; baseball hat for the women's baseball team "Silver Bullets" of Colorado; and four boxes of the General Mills cereal "Wheaties," featuring women athletes including Boston Marathon winner Joan Benoit Samuelson (1996), the women's gymnastics team from the 1996 Olympics, Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken (1996), and tennis player Althea Gibson (2001).

1 folio+ folder, 1 card file box.

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

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

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National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Van Dyken, Amy.

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NOW Majority Caucus.

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Colorado Silver Bullets (Baseball team)

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Samuelson, Joan Benoit

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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....

Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003

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General Mills, inc.

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Minneapolis, MN. From the description of Pamphlet and handbill, ca.1930. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122364952 In 1893 the Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis opened a Buffalo office from which to distribute its flour throughout the East. A Buffalo flour mill followed in 1904, and in 1928 General Mills was organized with Washburn-Crosby as its nucleus. Washburn-Crosby was dissolved in 1937. General Mills Buffalo operations include a cereal...

Guerrero, Christine.

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