Records, 1970-1996.

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Records, 1970-1996.

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The Women's Action Alliance Records document the administration of the organization, its many and varied projects, and its role as a women's information clearinghouse. Included are correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, resource files, photographs, and audiovisual materials. The collection is a rich source of information about the contemporary women's movement and the dynamics of race and class within it. The organization's projects focused on such issues as coalition-building among women's groups, women's economic development, teenage pregnancy prevention, and non-sexist child development. projects focused on such issues as coalition-building among women's groups, women's economic development, teenage pregnancy prevention, and non-sexist child development.

117.25 linear ft. (318 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Women's Educational Equity Act Program (U.S.)

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Feigen, Brenda

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National Women's Conference 1st 1977 Houston, Tex.

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Steinem, Gloria

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Author, editor, feminist. From the description of Reminiscences of Gloria Steinem : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528716 Journalist; Feminist; Political activist; Co-founder, Ms magazine; Co-founder, Women's Action Alliance; Co-founder, Ms Foundation for Women; Co-founder, National Women's Political Caucus. Born 1934; graduated Smith College, 1956; received post-graduate 2 year fellowship to...

Women's Action Alliance

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The Women's Action Alliance (WAA) was founded in 1971 to coordinate resources for organizations and individuals involved in the women's movement on the grass-roots level. Founders included Gloria Steinem (see also the Gloria Steinem Papers ), Brenda Feigen, and Catherine Samuels. The organization's original mission was "to stimulate and assist women at the local level to organize around specific action projects aimed at eliminating concrete manifestations of economic and social disc...