League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle, Massachusetts, records, 1931-2005.

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League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle, Massachusetts, records, 1931-2005.

Series I. Core Records (1931-2002 and undated) consist of the following subseries: meeting minutes and agendas (1931-2002, with gaps); reports, including treasurer's reports (1937-1993, with gaps), local to national reports (1967-1985), local to state reports (1973-1975); presidential reports (1935-1936, 1961-1970, with gaps); and annual reports (1955-1967). Core Records also include by-laws (1965-1990), job descriptions and guidelines (1968-1982, 1992), and president's notebook materials (1985-1987 and undated). Series II. Membership (1943-1991 and undated) contains membership lists and associated information (1943-1991, with gaps), new member lists (1967-1977, 1983 and undated), and itinerary for bus tours of Concord for new members. Series III. Financial Records (1932-1993 and undated) contains records of the Finance Committee (1963, 1970, 1993 and undated), dues records (1969-1978), IRS records (1969-1971, 1973-1974, 1978), budgets (1932-1987, with gaps), and past state assessments (1967-1971). Series IV. Topical Issues (1961-1985 and undated) contains the records of community issues on which the League focused, including agriculture, education, environmental health, hazardous waste, land use, recreation, SUASCO, and water resources. Series V. Publications (1951-2005 and undated) consists of Observer Reports (1986, 1999-2005), Carlisle materials (1986), Bulletins (1955-2005), booklets and brochures include flyers (undated), town and community government guides (1952, 1958, 1966-1968, 1980), Voters Handbooks (1963, 1970, 1973-1974 and undated), hand-outs (1969, 1971-1972, 1975-1976, 1978-1979), booklets, (1970-1972, 1974-1976, 1979-1980, 1981), Comprehensive Town Plans Committee materials (1973-1974), Town Factsheets (1973-1974, 1976, 1978), Annual Meeting workbooks (1967-2005, with gaps), miscellaneous publications (1964, 1978, 1981, 1986 and undated), and yearbooks (1951-1981, with gaps). Series VI. Program Planning (1962-1992 and undated) includes materials on legislation (1965, 1973, 1978-1979, 1982-1983), Neighborhood Coffees (1982-1983), Crime Prevention (1976, 1978-1980 and undated), Town Meetings (1967-1978,1981, 1984 and undated), Minute Man Vocational Technology Communities, (1971, 1975-1976, 1980 and undated), Action Meetings, (1983, 1985-1987 and undated), the Kennedy Library Visitor Program (1973-1975 and undated), Education Fund (1965-1970, 1973, 1975, 1979 and undated), Grant Projects (1975, 1978-1980 and undated), Finance Drives (1969-1975, 1978, 1980 and undated), Candidates' Night (1970-1971, 1973-1980 and undated), and State and National program planning. Series VII. Miscellaneous (1961-2000 and undated) contains questionnaires, surveys and responses from the 1960s and 1970s, studies, including the Education Committee Kindergarten Report (1983), studies on the environmental impact of Hanscom Field (1974-1975, 1977 and undated), trade (1983-1985 and undated), tourism (1973-1976 and undated), town government (1966, 1972-1980 and undated), transportation 1970-1980, with gaps), and national, regional, and state materials. It also contains materials on history of the League of Women Voters (1961, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1978-1979, 1981 and undated), the 70th Anniversary Tea (2000), correspondence, photographs, and reel-to-reel tape recordings of national (undated) and local (1972) events.

5 record cartons.

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League of Women Voters of Concord (Concord, Mass.)

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League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt at the final meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, just a few months prior to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Concord's LWV was founded a decade later under the leadership of Miss Sarah Goodwin. Reflecting the history of the national organization, its earliest members were many of Concord's leading suffragists. In 1962 Carlisl...