Papers of the American Association of University Women [manuscript] 1926-1981.

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Papers of the American Association of University Women [manuscript] 1926-1981.

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The papers contain state administrative files including minutes of the state board, the executive committee, and annual conferences, president's papers, branch presidents' annual reports, resolutions and bylaws, national and division convention papers, division programs and bulletins, and branch bulletins, histories, and directories; topical files particularly for women's issues and education including the Virginia school desegregation controversy and the McCarthy investigations of Judge Dorothy Kenyon; and the Charlottesville branch files including bulletins, directories, by-laws, presidents' papers, publicity and financial material, and handbooks, histories and other pertinent printed material related to either the branches or topics of interest.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Carson, J. S. C., Mrs.,

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Schubert, Elizabeth Ryall.

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Nichols, B. B., Mrs.,

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Kenyon, Dorothy, 1888-1972

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Lawyer; Judge; activist. Municipal Court Justice, New York City, 1930's; president of the Consumers' League of New York; appointed to a League of Nations Commission to Study the Legal Status of Women, 1938; U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1947-50. Charged by Senator Joseph McCarthy with membership in communist organizations and was the first person to appear before Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee, 1950. Was on National Board of the American Civil Lib...

Schrader, Charlotte,

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American Association of University Women. Virginia Division

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Organization formed to "foster the development and maintenance of high standards of education, strengthen the fellowship among university women in order that their influence may be felt...in the solution of social and civic problems, [and] secure broader opportunities for women...." From the description of Papers of the Virginia Division of the American Association of University Women [manuscript], 1962-1994. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647847588 ...