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Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00359
Abstract
Birth control advocacy organization. The records provide a unique source for the study of the establishment and development of an organization largely run by women. They document the half-century struggle to revoke the Massachusetts Comstock Laws through state initiative and referendum voting (1942, 1948) campaigns for the right to disseminate information on birth control. Also of interest are letters to and from Margaret Sanger, and from General Douglas MacArthur forbidding Sanger from...
Dates of Materials:
1859-2002; Majority of material found within 1916-1960
Sophie Hutchinson Drinker papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00051
Abstract
Sophie Drinker was a historian and musicologist. Papers primarily relate to Drinker's work on the history of women and music, and her promotion of choral singing by women. Types of materials include correspondence, research, and writings for her books Brahms and His Women's Choruses (1952), and Music and Women: The Story of Women in Their Relation to Music (1948). Of particular interest are the songbooks, or stimmenhefte,...
Dates of Materials:
1859-1990; Majority of material found within 1935-1966
Virginia Apuzzo papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00711
Abstract
Catholic nun; Lesbian activist; AIDS activist; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force director. Correspondence, reports, news coverage, speeches and speech notes, financial records, and photographs. The papers particularly well document the burgeoning AIDS crisis of the 1980s and the political response. The papers also show well how the Gay and Lesbian Movement grew over time and gained wider acceptance as personified by this one woman's rise in relative political power from the State House in...
Dates of Materials:
1940 - 2012
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- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 6
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America 5
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- Guttmacher, Alan Frank, 1898- 3
- International Planned Parenthood Federation 3
- McCormick, Katherine Dexter, 1876-1967 3
- Rose, Florence 3
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- Best, Winfield 2
- Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (New York, N.Y.) 2
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- Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2
- Columbia University 2
- Gamble, Clarence James, 1894- 2
- Grierson, Margaret Storrs 2
- Hepburn, Katherine Houghton, 1878-1951 2
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- Rose, D. Kenneth 2
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