Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, 1918-2001 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

ArchivalResource

Additional records of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, 1918-2001 (inclusive), 1960-1990 (bulk).

Collection contains program research files, local League files, and administrative and financial records. Also includes audiotapes, phonographic records, and videotapes shelved and described separately.

96.33 linear ft. (232 file boxes, 1 folio box, 5 folio+ boxes, 9 photograph folders)

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68f0n0n (corporateBody)

The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67q2spg (corporateBody)

In 1870, within a year of forming the American Woman Suffrage Association, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and others founded the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. MWSA was affiliated with AWSA and shared both its goals and activities. The merger, in 1890, of AWSA with the National Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), prompted Alice Stone Blackwell and Ellen Batelle Dietrick to write a new constitution in April 1892. T...

League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb30c0 (corporateBody)

The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 during the National American Suffrage Association convention, just months before the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. Many founding delegates were from Massachusetts, and participated in local suffrage organizations. These suffrage groups promptly reformed as League chapters. Originally incorporated in 1893, the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association dissolved and regrouped in May 1...

Morrison, Linda,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z038kk (person)

Radcliffe College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rf9p18 (corporateBody)

Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Rubin, Florence,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tm7bt1 (person)

League of Women Voters (U.S.). Lotte E. Scharfman Memorial Fund

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c000zs (corporateBody)