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Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00331
Overview
The Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts is a volunteer group that generates donations from individuals and foundations to make loans to low-income women seeking abortions. The group also works to increase public awareness of curbs on freedom of choice. The papers include organization records, including financial material, conference materials, correspondence, fundraising material, publications, and other printed material.
Dates:
1986 - 2007
Adrienne Germain papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00778
Overview
The Adrienne Germain papers contain the working papers of Adrienne Germain, a champion for women's health and human rights in low-income countries, including essays, research materials, and correspondence related to her work with the Ford Foundation and the International Women's Health Coalition.
Dates:
1964 - 2016
Aileen C. Hernandez papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00730
Overview
Comprised of correspondence, reports, research notes, surveys, audiovisual materials, and newspaper clippings from the papers of Aileen C. Hernandez, activist and civic leader. These papers document the life of Aileen C. Hernandez, activist and civic leader.
Dates:
1926 - 2014
Alice O. Howell papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00660
Overview
Teacher; Author; Astrologer. Collection includes personal papers and materials pertaining to Howell's career as an astrologer and teacher and practitioner of Jungian cosmology/psychology: a lengthy oral history; teaching materials; diaries; writings; correspondence; publicity materials; subject files; and memorabilia. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to you.]
Dates:
1932-2011 (ongoing)
American Association of University Women. Connecticut Valley Branch records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00332
Overview
Collegiate association. The records document the organization's history, administration, committee activities, membership, and promotional activities. Materials include reports, brochures, correspondence, and printed materials.
Dates:
1925-1992 (ongoing)
American Association of University Women. Massachusetts Division records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00333
Overview
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) was founded in 1882 to unite alumnae of different institutions for "practical educational work." The records of the Massachusetts Division of the AAUW include histories, correspondence, reports, clippings, publications and other printed material from western Massachusetts AAUW branches.
Dates:
1933 - 1990
American Association of University Women records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00330
Overview
Women's collegiate association. Collection conisists primarily of printed material relating to the organization and its Boston and Los Angeles branches.
Dates:
1921-1983 (ongoing)
American Association of University Women. Worcester Branch records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00346
Overview
Collegiate association. Records document Executive Committee meetings; annual meetings, membership, programs, club activities, and history of the organization.
Dates:
1897-1995 (ongoing)
American Council of Railroad Women records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00345
Overview
An organization of women holding supervisory positions in railroad personnel and service. The records provide insight into the attitudes and motivations of a group of professional women organized for their mutual benefit at a time when most women had "jobs" rather than "careers." Material includes correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, photographs, scrapbooks, and other material which document its history and activities from its founding until 1977.
Dates:
1944-1977
Andrea Ayvazian papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00760
Overview
Professional and personal papers, including correspondence, business records, sermons, writings, both published and unpublished, and teaching/workshop materials, especially strong in anti-racism material, of Andrea Ayvazian, labor and delivery nurse, mountaineering guide, anti-racism consultant, a teacher, a folk singer and published poet, a college dean of religous life, and a pastor.
Dates:
1960 - 2015
Ann Rawley collection of Madeleine L'Engle books and articles
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SSC-MS-00804
Overview
This collection includes articles on Madeleine L'Engle in Smith College Alumnae Quarterly and some of L'Engle's published books.
Dates:
1945 - 2018
Annis Pratt papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00491
Overview
Author; Poet; Political activist; Professor, English. The Annis Pratt Papers contain diaries; writings; class notes from Smith College and the University of Wisconsin; published and unpublished poetry; correspondence; records of the Women's Caucus of Modern Languages; and materials pertaining to Pratt's participation in the Smith Centennial Project and to her involvement in the her 35th Smith reunion.
Dates:
1954-2005
Association of Collegiate Alumnae records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00325
Overview
The Association of Collegiate Alumnae was formed in Boston in 1882 to unite women graduates of four-year colleges and universities around issues including standards of academic programs, isolation following the college experience, living wage for college alumnae and concerns about their place in the academy. These records contain reports, correspondence, announcements, publications, registers, and a scrapbook on topics relating to the education of women in the late 19th century, medical...
Dates:
1882 - 1921
Azalia Emma Peet papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00120
Overview
Missionary and teacher. The Azalia Peet papers consist of photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, and speeches. Of particular interest in the collection diaries and letters written by Peet from Japan, and from the Japanese American internment camps in the United States during World War II. Her early diaries reflect her home life and her personal struggle to come to terms with her vocation.
Dates:
1902 - 1974
Barbara van Patten papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SSC-MS-00224
Overview
Traveler. This collection consists of diaries and photo albums documenting the van Patten's year-long honeymoon through Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1932-33.
Dates:
1932-1933
Batya Bauman papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00541
Overview
Batya Bauman is an animal welfare advocate; ecofeminist; feminist; lesbian activist; editor and writer. Her papers consist of biographical information and documents pertaining to Bauman's early life, her feminist lecture businesses, and activism in the realms of lesbian feminism, Jewish feminism, and animal rights. Materials include writings, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, memoranda, articles, photographs, newsletters, personal calendars, and memorabilia. There are also clippings,...
Dates:
1947 - 2006
Bel Kaufman papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00522
Overview
Author; Teacher; Lyricist. Papers consist of files pertaining to Kaufman's activities as a high school teacher, author, lecturer and public speaker; to her travels in Russia, where there has been an abiding interest in her grandfather, the author Sholom Alacheim; and to translations of her books into the Russian language. Materials relating to her written works include manuscripts, correspondence, contracts, and notes on Kaufman's published books Up the Down...
Dates:
1911 - 2010
Bernie D. Jones papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00743
Overview
Bernie D. Jones is a legal scholar and author. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Hunter College, the New York University School of Law and the University of Virginia, where she earned a doctorate in U.S. History. Her specialization was in legal history and theory. She served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department from 1992-1995 and was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Legal Studies from 2003-2008....
Dates:
1986-2016
Betsy Hartmann papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00808
Overview
Betsy Hartmann is an activist and author of both fiction and nonfiction publications relating to activism on reproductive rights, women's rights, environmental policy, and American politics and foreign policy. This collection documents Hartmann's professional life, and includes her research, manuscripts, correspondence and speeches.
Dates:
1968 - 2019
Black Women's Health Imperative records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00487
Overview
Women of color, reproductive rights, and women's health advocacy organization. The records consist of materials pertaining to the administration and the public outreach work of the Black Women's Health Imperative (BWHI), including board of directors files reports, correspondence, conference materials, photograph albums, memorabilia, and audiovisual materials. There is a large amount of promotional and educational materials produced by BWHI including pamphlets, posters, brochures, fact sheets,...
Dates:
1980 - 2018
Canadian-American Women's Committee records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00355
Overview
The Canadian-American Women's Committee was founded as an international organization with the aim of developing appreciation and cooperation between the two countries through increased knowledge. Records of the American Section and the Connecticut Branch include material on conferences, field study trips, affiliation with the National Council of Women, student exchanges, and administrative records.
Dates:
1941-1969
Carmen Vázquez papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00557
Overview
Lesbian activist. The Carmen Vázquez Papers document Vazquez's activism for gay and lesbian rights; they include materials pertaining to gay and lesbian health issues, as well as Vazquez's interest and involvement in broader issues of race and class. The collection includes diaries, correspondence, biographical information, an interview, photographs, memorabilia, writings speeches.
Dates:
1951 - 2011
Caroline Maria Seymour Severance papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00145
Overview
Caroline Maria Seymour Severance was a New England Woman's Club leader, women's rights activist, and abolitionist. The Severance papers include a small amount of biographical material, two photographs of Jesse Benton Fremont, a book about the women's club movement, Caroline Severance's guest book, and a scrapbook kept by Caroline Severance's daughter, Julia Long Severance (Burrage). The guest book and scrapbook include autographs, quotations, notes, correspondence, drawings, photographs, and...
Dates:
1860 - 1945
Carolyn McDade papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00724
Overview
Born June 19, 1935 to a Southern Baptist family, Carolyn McDade is a feminist, a writer of women's music, and self-described activist. The collection includes personal and professional papers, including correspondence, music, writing, and organizational documents.
Dates:
1940 - 2014
Catholics for Choice records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00742
Overview
The Catholics for Choice Records are comprised of organizational records, including correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and articles, that document the organization's mission of "support[ing] a woman's moral and legal right to follow her conscience in matters of sexuality and reproductive health."
Dates:
1973-2014
Center for the Advancement of Women records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00667
Overview
Women's advocacy group. The records document the daily activities of a feminist non-prift research and advocacy group. Major topics covered: women's rights, women's health, reproductive rights, women of color, affirmative action, and domestic violence.
Dates:
1990 - 2010
Charon Asetoyer papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00677
Overview
Abortion rights advocate, women's health activist, indigenous rights activist. Papers document Asetoyer's professional and public life, focusing on her activism in indigenous rights, women's health, and reproductive justice issues on the local, national, and international level. Major topics include Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; HIV/AIDS and Native Americans; economic development; health care for rural and underserved populations; links between the environment and health; and indigenous women's...
Dates:
1985-2008
Choice USA records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00575
Overview
Reproductive rights advocacy group. Records contain correspondence, publications, publicity materials, press releases and clippings, photographs, website images, reports, polls, financial information, and Board of Directors minutes, and other materials. They document the organization's history and work for the preservation of a woman's right to choose by way of media campaigns, voter registration initiatives, educational outreach to young adults, and endorsing pro- choice candidates for...
Dates:
1980 - 2005
Coalition of Indian-Controlled School Boards Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00696
Overview
Oral history interviews with individuals who made "unrivaled contributions to Indian parental and community control of Indian education." The collection includes audio recordings, partial transcripts, related correspondence and published documents. A large percentage of the interviews are with women and many who were involved in the Indian rights movement, including Rebecca Adamson, the first field coordinator for the coalition.
Dates:
1967-
2009
Committee of Correspondence records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00340
Overview
International women's organization. The records include extensive official correspondence (1952-69) as well as hundreds of letters to and from correspondents throughout the world documenting the work of the organization. In addition there are official records; minutes; complete files of multi-lingual publications entitled "Community Action Series" and "Meeting Community Needs;" miscellaneous publications; conferences and workshop material; circa 150 photographs; oral history transcripts,...
Dates:
1952-1989; Majority of material found within 1952-1971
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