Welfare rights movement
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Collections that document advocacy for welfare rights and economic justice.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Activist Life Oral History Project oral histories
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00641
Overview
A collection of life histories of women who have dedicated their lives to social and political activism. Fifteen interviews, conducted by Smith College students, document both the diversity and the persistence of women's activism, as organizers and as cultural workers, in a variety of social movements such as women's health, economic justice, LGBT liberation, peace, education, and environmental sustainability.
Dates of Materials:
2008 - 2009
Alliance Against Women's Oppression records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00699
Overview
International women of color organization, Welfare rights activists, Reproductive rights and Women's health advocates. The Records are primarily related to the Bay Area Chapter of the Alliance and contain documents that articulate and demonstrate the challenges of developing a revolutionary mass organization through position and discussion papers, drafts, and publications produced by the Alliance. There is abundant documentation of the processes of coalition and social investigation that AAWO...
Dates of Materials:
1980-1989
Arise for Social Justice records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00458
Overview
Grassroots advocacy, low-income rights and social justice organization based in Springfield, Mass. The Records provide a detailed record of the activities, decision-making processes, and political foundation of the organization and its work in coalition with regional, state, national, and international groups. Major topics found in the records include criminal justice, economic justice, HIV/AIDS prevention, homelessness, housing, poverty, social justice, and welfare rights. In addition there...
Dates of Materials:
1916 - 2015
Consumers' League of Kentucky records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00323
Overview
The Consumers' League of Kentucky, includes histories and reports, printed materials, correspondence, and minutes. Child labor, compulsory education, working conditions, minimum wage, and social security were among the state legislative topics that the League addressed.
Dates of Materials:
1901-1951; Majority of material found within 1901-1941
Emma Goldman papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 310183630044419]
Identifier: SSC-MS-00064
Overview
The collection contains the papers for Russian American anarchist Emma Goldman, including typed letters and fragments to friends, printed speeches, and pamphlets on anarchism and prison experiences.
Dates of Materials:
1911 - 1936
Felice Yeskel papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00695
Overview
Activist; Educator. The papers of an activist who fought for peace, gay rights and an end to classism. include correspondence, research, lecture notes, published work, program files, organizational records, newspaper and magazine articles, email, photographs, films, and computer files. Especially well-documented is Yeskel's work to end homophobia and classism. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you would like one sent to you.]
Dates of Materials:
1950 - 2010
Frances Fox Piven papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00238
Overview
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, Michael...
Dates of Materials:
1950 - 2012
Guida West papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00555
Overview
Political sociologist; activist; author. The papers focus primarily on West's activism, research, professional activities, speeches, and writings related to welfare rights and economic justice. Her extensive working files document individuals and organizations working for civil rights, welfare rights, and related social movements from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Organizations represented include the Montclair Welfare Rights and Friends of Welfare Rights, National Welfare Rights Organization...
Dates of Materials:
1946 - 2006
Lisa Leghorn papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00270
Overview
Author, Feminist. The Lisa Leghorn Papers consist of her research files, organized by subject. Types of material include articles, notes, correspondence, published and unpublished writings, and printed material. The files relate to her books on women and development; woman and hunger; women, economics and housework. There are also materials on battered women (including Laura X case); women's rights in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean and the U.S.; and the International Women's Year...
Dates of Materials:
1966 - 1989
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00719
Overview
Labor organizer; Women's rights activist; Author; Activist; Poet. The papers include correspondence, organizing materials, conference materials, fliers, pamphlets, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. There is also Louie's course work as both student and instructor. Major topics include women and labor organizing, Asian American women's history, social justice activism, international women's rights, and issues surrounding race, class, immigration and poverty in the U.S. Especially impressive...
Dates of Materials:
1970 - 2016
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00586
Overview
Advocacy group which focuses on the rights and needs of Asian and Pacific Islander American Women. Records include administrative files, correspondence, conference and retreat materials, reports, newsletters, articles, photos, videos, and research files. Major topics include women's rights, reproductive rights, women's health, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender rights, immigration reform, domestic violence, human trafficking, labor reform, economic justice, voter registration initiatives, and the...
Dates of Materials:
1995 - 2019
National Congress of Neighborhood Women records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00322
Overview
The National Congress of Neighborhood Women (NCNW) is a feminist grassroots network. The primary goal of this organization was to empower poor and working-class women to become community leaders. The collection offers valuable source material for the study of working-class feminist organizing; urban studies; and women in community development. Also documented are the inner workings of grassroots organizing, with all of the personal and political dynamics that come with incorporating a feminist...
Dates of Materials:
1970 - 2013
New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project oral histories
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00524
Overview
This collection consists of interviews conducted by Tamar Carroll for her dissertation on women's community activism in New York City, circa 1955-1995, including activists involved in Mobilization For Youth on New York City's Lower East Side and members of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
Dates of Materials:
1970 - 2010
Rebecca Adamson papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00481
Overview
Economist, Founder First Nations Development Institute, Native American rights advocate. Papers are primarily related to her professional and public life, and focus on two organizations founded by Adamson, the First Nations Development Institute (FNDI) and First Peoples Worldwide (FPW). Major topics include American Indians, indigenous people, and economic development. Portions of the work of FNDI are particularly well chronicled through detailed staff reports and records on Field Operations...
Dates of Materials:
1941 - 2013
Richard A. Cloward papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00466
Overview
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
Rosalind Petchesky papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00639
Overview
The collection contains extensive documentation of Rosalind Petchesky's long involvement in reproductive rights and health, sexual rights, women's rights and gender equality, population control, global justice and economic justice, and women's studies and gender studies in academia.
Dates of Materials:
1959 - 2009
Survivors, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00687
Overview
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
Third World Women's Alliance, Bay Area chapter records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00697
Overview
Global women of color reproductive rights and social justice organization. TWWA broadened the scope of women's activism to address issues such as sterilization abuse, infant mortality, welfare rights, and low-wage work. The orientation of TWWA towards the "third world" brought the struggles, condition, and status of women in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East to the forefront. The bulk of the records focus on the the West Coast and Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area Chapters of the...
Dates of Materials:
1971-1980; Majority of material found within 1971-1977
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project oral histories
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00535
Overview
Oral History Project documenting the persistence and diversity of organizing for women in the United States. Narrators include labor, peace, and anti-racism activists; artists and writers; lesbian rights advocates; grassroots anti-violence and anti-poverty organizers; and women of color reproductive justice leaders. Interviews cover childhood, personal life, and political work. Most oral histories consist of audiovisual recordings and transcripts, plus some background information.
Dates of Materials:
1990-2014
Women of Color Resource Center records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00718
Overview
Women of color grassroots network; Welfare rights, reproductive rights, and women's health advocacy organization in Oakland, California. Records include publications, pamphlets and catalogs of the WCRC; programming materials, conference reports, background research files, and audiovisual material.
Dates of Materials:
1984 - 2011
- Smith College Special Collections
- Neilson Library, 7 Neilson Drive
- Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
- specialcollections@smith.edu
- 413-585-2970
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