Papers, 1978-1999.

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Papers, 1978-1999.

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The collection includes records of the National Organization for Women, St. Joseph Valley (Indiana) Chapter including minutes, correspondence, and notes. A large amount of material concerns the struggle between anti-abortion groups and organizations that advocate access to abortion and family planning services. Also included are subject files regarding aging, the Gulf War, minimum wage legislation, and lesbian issues. Other material includes issues of the newsletter "Around the Bend," published by the Peace Education Fund of Indiana, Inc.

8 manuscript boxes, 1 box of col. photographs, slides, artifacts.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana NOW

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Michiana Older Women's League.

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March for Women's Lives (Washington, D.C.)

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Planned parenthood federation of America

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In 1921 Margaret Sanger founded the national lobbying organization, American Birth Control League (ABCL) which in 1942 became Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). Between 1921 and 1942 the organization underwent two transformations. In 1923 Sanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB) for the purposes of dispensing contraceptives under the supervision of licensed physicians and studying their effectiveness. The ABCL provided institutional backing for ...

Peace Education Fund of Indiana, Inc.

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Working Women's Coalition.

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Stecker, Ellyn.

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Ellyn Stecker, a South Bend, Ind., physician, was co-chairperson for the National Organization for Women (NOW), St. Joseph Valley (Indiana) Chapter from circa 1985 to the late 1990s. She was also an editor of "Around the Bend," the newsletter of the Peace Education Fund of Indiana, Inc. The St. Joseph Valley Chapter of NOW was founded circa 1981 by students at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind. NOW's concerns include reproductive rights, lesbian rights, older women's concerns, racial divers...

National Organization for Women. St. Joseph Valley Chapter.

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Collegians Activated to Liberate Life.

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