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Aileen C. Hernandez papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00730
Abstract Aileen C. Hernandez (1926-2017) was a Black feminist known for her roles as an original Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and as the second president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She was an active member of more than 100 activist and community-based organizations concerned with racial justice, women’s equality, economic equity, fair housing, education, and other social issues. The Aileen C. Hernandez papers document decades of activism by a...
Dates of Materials: 1926 - 2014
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Survivors, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00687
Abstract

Welfare rights activist organization. The records document the work of this welfare rights organization based in the Boston area, as well as work done by the grassroots organization Advocacy for Resources for Modern Survival (ARMS). Major topics include welfare reform, economic justice, poverty, homelessness, grassroots organizing, and cross-class and bi-racial women's organizations. Especially well-documented is co-founder Dottie Stevens' 1990 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign.

Dates of Materials: 1973 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1990s
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

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Coalition for Basic Human Needs 1
Cummings, Claire 1
Dujon, Diane 1
Fulcher, Patsy G. 1
Hernandez, Aileen C. (1926 May 23-2017 February 13) 1
Mandell, Betty Reid 1
Massachusetts Welfare Reform Union (Mattapan, Mass.) 1
National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing 1
National Organization for Women 1
National Organization for Women. Task Force on Minority Women and Women's Rights 1
National Urban Coalition 1
Sapphire Publishing Company 1
Spikes, Eleanor R. (1936-1982) 1
Stevens, Dottie (1941-2014) 1
Survival news (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.) 1
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