Legal files
Subject
Subject Source: Local Inmagic Collection
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
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:
1956-2010; Majority of material found within 1985-2010
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00584
Overview
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women records contain administrative records related to women's collegiate athletics in the 1970s and 1980s, including records of anti-trust litigation with the NCAA and AIAW's advocacy for parity in women's sports. The records also include materials pertaining to AIAW's management of high school and collegiate women's sports, including coaches' handbooks, brochures, and event programs.
Dates:
1962 - 2009
Carolyn Gage papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00710
Overview
The collection contains the professional papers and writings of Carolyn Gage, a lesbian feminist playwright who also acts and directs and treats her art as activism.
Dates:
1977 - 2014
G.J. Stillson MacDonnell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SSC-MS-00070
Overview
Lawyer; Civic leader; Lobbyist. Papers document the Connecticut women's movement in the 1970s and 1980s, including women's organizations such as the Feminist Credit Union, the Coalition of Connecticut Organizations Concerned with Women's Issues, the Connecticut Commission on the Status of Women, the first rape crisis service and the first battered women's shelter in Connecticut. Topics include the Equal Rights Amendment, gay rights, married women's surname, and taxation of single people. NOTE:...
Dates:
1970-1987
Harriet F. Pilpel papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00311
Overview
Lawyer; birth control advocate; and abortion rights advocate. The Harriet F. Pilpel Papers are primarily related to her professional work with sexual and reproductive rights. The collection is essentially Pilpel's reference files, and is primarily composed of court documents from various legal cases on the state and federal level. The papers allow for a comprehensive, state-to-state comparison of a variety of sexual and reproductive laws, and provides a sense of the debates going on in...
Dates:
1913-1981
Hilda Schwartz papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00281
Overview
Lawyer; Judge; Founder, NY Women's Bar Association. Papers consist of correspondence, campaign records, legal documents, biographical materials, newspaper clippings and photographs documenting Schwart's public career and legal work in New York City. NOTE: There is no container list online for this finding aid. You may contact the Sophia Smith Collection if you want one sent to you.
Dates:
1930-1994
Joan Banks Dunlop papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00707
Overview
The Joan Banks Dunlop collection documents the life and work of Dunlop, an activist and leader in women's rights and reproductive health. Especially well documented is the work Dunlop did with International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) and A Women's Lens on Global Issues.
Dates:
1916 - 2012
Judith Holmes legal papers on Susan Rosenberg
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00806
Overview
The Judith Holmes legal papers on Susan Rosenberg contain court documents and legal records documenting Susan Rosenberg's case, appeals, and pardon. These records were collected by lawyer Judith Holmes when she represented Timothy Blunt, Susan Rosenberg's codefendant in the 1984 charges for possession of explosives and later appeals.
Dates:
1981 - 2000
Mary Metlay Kaufman papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00300
Overview
Lawyer, professor, and political activist. Major themes reflected in the papers include international law, anti-communism, civil rights, the anti-Vietnam war and anti-nuclear movements. The papers also document Kaufman's close associations with other prominent civil rights attorneys and her involvement in international war crimes tribunals. Material includes trial records and research; correspondence; published and unpublished writings; speeches; and teaching materials.
Dates:
1917 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1946-1986
Molly Yard papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00469
Overview
Mary Alexander (Molly) Yard was a political, civil rights and feminist organizer, best known for her work as the president of the National Organization for Women from 1987-1991, during which time she organized the 1989 National March for Women's Lives, one of the largest marches in Washington D.C. history. Born in 1912 in Shanghai, China, where her parents had sought temporary refuge from the political conflicts rocking Chengtu, the provincial home of their Methodist Episcopl mission. She lived...
Dates:
1917 - 1993
Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00638
Overview
The Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication was originally part of the Ms. Foundation for Women. From 1978 to 1987, it published Ms. Magazine. This collection consists of early records of the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, including financial information, correspondence, Board of Directors files, and documents pertaining to a legal case brought by Elizabeth Forsling Harris against Gloria Steinem, Patricia Carbine and Ms. Magazine Corp. for fraud.
Dates:
1975 - 2003
Nancy Hamilton papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00189
Overview
Playwright, Lyricist, Actress, Producer. Collection includes correspondence; promotional material; scripts (some in braille); photographs; original film footage and soundtrack chiefly relating to filming, production and distribution of the Oscar winning documentary film Helen Keller in Her Story (1955). Included are research files, biographical information, correspondence and other papers relating to Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, actress Katharine Cornell,...
Dates:
1862-1992; Majority of material found within 1952-1959
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00359
Overview
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:
1859-2002; Majority of material found within 1916-1960
Rhonda Copelon papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SSC-MS-00693
Overview
Lawyer. Papers include Legal documents and research, correspondence, teaching materials, published writings, panel presentations, notes, and audio and video recordings documenting Copelon's legal activism and teaching. Major topics include reproductive rights, domestic violence, international women's rights, AIDS legislation. Audio recordings include her course lectures for Women and Law, Law and Family, and Constitutional Law. [NOTE: The contents list for this collection is not online. Contact...
Dates:
1971-2006
Susan Rosenberg papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00713
Overview
Author; Poet; Political activist; Prison reformer; Educator. Papers are primarily associated with her sixteen years in prison (1984-2001) and include correspondence, legal documents, photographs, poetry and essays written by Rosenberg, course work, her Master's thesis, and syllabi for courses she taught while incarcerated. Of particular interest are the personal journals she kept during her time in prison.
Dates:
1966 - 2002
Thomas Thompson Trust records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00358
Overview
Charitable organization. Records consist largely of charity case records of poor women from Brattleboro and some from Rhinebeck, New York. Files contain correspondence from clients as well as case notes by the local agent. Collection contains the correspondence and papers of Richards M. Bradley, a trustee who oversaw the trust from 1901 to 1943. Also included are the records of the Brattleboro Mutual Aid Association and the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (includes blueprints and design). BMAA...
Dates:
1844-2001
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- Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
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