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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Annette Kar Baxter papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00258
Abstract
Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; writings and notes; and teaching materials; research and organization files focusing primarily on her years as a professor at Barnard College and her administrative responsibilities there. Her papers reveal the thrills and frustrations that come with advancing new disciplines, American Studies and Women's Studies, while advocating traditional, single-sex educational programs....
Dates of Materials:
1850 - 1988
Carolyn G. Heilbrun papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00274
Abstract
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was born 13 January, 1926. She was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University from 1960-1992, specializing in British Modernism, and published more than a dozen mystery novels under the pseudonym Amanda Cross, plus nine scholarly books. Her papers include personal correspondence and professional papers, including writings (published and unpublished), research files, teaching material, speeches and professional activities. The collection also...
Dates of Materials:
1945 - 2003
Elizabeth Thompson Bunce papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00411
Abstract
Marine geophysicist. Papers contain a transcript of an oral history interview, professional correspondence, biographical material, photographs, and awards and citations.
Dates of Materials:
1936-1986; Majority of material found within 1962-1980
Frances Fox Piven papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00238
Abstract
Professor, political science and political activist. The material in the Frances Fox Piven Papers, which includes correspondence, organization files, speeches, and writings, reflects her involvement as both an academic and activist concerned with community development, poverty, the welfare state and urban reform. Organizations documented include the American Civil Liberties Union, Mobilization for Youth, and the National Welfare Rights Organization. Correspondents include June Jordan,...
Dates of Materials:
1950 - 2012
Marjorie Hope Nicolson Papers
Collection
Identifier: CA-MS-00049
Abstract
Professor, English, writer. Contains biographical material, correspondence, published and unpublished writings.
Dates of Materials:
1880 - 1981
Found in:
Smith College Archives
Richard A. Cloward papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00466
Abstract
Richard A. Cloward was a sociologist and social activist who was an architect of the welfare rights movement and the co-author of a groundbreaking critique of the welfare state as a tool for containing social unrest. Included are electronic mail, correspondence, memorandums and articles about Cloward's and Frances Piven’s social welfare activism; correspondence, clippings, and writings about Cloward's legal entanglements with Brandeis and Columbia Universities; Frances Piven's appointment...
Dates of Materials:
1944 - 2006
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- Juvenile delinquency -- United States 2
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 2
- Oral histories 2
- Organization files 2
- Speeches. 2
- Videotapes 2
- Voter registration -- United States 2
- Welfare rights movement 2
- Welfare rights movement -- United States 2
- Women in higher education 2
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