Collection, 1975-1999.

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Collection, 1975-1999.

Collection consists of the operational records of Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU), one of the earliest lesbian non-profit educational organizations in Los Angeles, California..

1 shoe box.1 oversize box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8075101

University of California, Los Angeles

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June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive at UCLA.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library

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Powell was a librarian, Strashun the curator at the music library, and Whiting the curator of rare books at the UCLA library (at the respective times of correspondence). Sproul was president of UCLA from 1930 to 1958. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Isolde Klarmann, 1946-1947, 1978. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864679 ...

Southern California Women for Understanding

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Southern California Women for Understanding (SCWU), an educational non-profit organization, formed in 1976 and dedicated itself to "enhancing the quality of life for [the lesbian] community and for lesbians nationwide, creative and positive exchange about homosexuality, [and] changing stereotypical images of lesbians." SCWU emerged in the midst of the civil rights, gay rights, and women's movements when many marginalized social groups organized en masse to demand recognition and rights. SCWU was...

June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives

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