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Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture, Duke University

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The Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture collection contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women's Liberation Movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, and equal pay. Feminist print culture, such as the examples provided in the collection, supported and sustained the Women¹s Movement and connect it to other movements for social justice. The original version of this digital collection was produced in 1997 by then Duke Women's Studies Archivist, Ginny Daley along with then Duke professor Anne Valk to support assignments in her class on the Social History of American Women. Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon also contributed to material selection in conjunction with their publication of their book, Dear Sisters: Dispatches From The Women's Liberation Movement (Basic Books, 2001). The newly launched collection includes image scans of all documents and is full-text searchable. Photographs, flyers, planning documents, and responses to the 1968 and 1969 Miss America pageant protests, which launched Women's Liberation in the public consciousness, have been added to the collection.

Rise Up! Feminist Archive

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Rise Up! is a digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s. They were part of a worldwide wave of liberation and anti-oppression movements that won some victories, changed some attitudes, and radically altered the gendered and political landscape. The site is dedicated to documenting and sharing these histories.

June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives

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The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is a vital force in collecting, preserving, and uplifting lesbian, feminist, and queer women's history. The Mazer provides academics, researchers, creatives, and the community a space to access and explore the past while paving the way for future generations to understand and create their own legacy.  The Archive includes personal papers, organizational papers, photographs, periodicals, subject files, books, audiovisual materials, and ephemera spanning decades creating a living record of community activism, creativity, resilience, and love.

Women's Ephemera Files (WEF) Collection, Northwestern University

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The Women’s Ephemera Files (WEF) comprise a variety of materials relating to women’s issues, women’s liberation, feminism and sexism over the course of the 20th century, with the bulk of the material originating in the latter decades (1960s-1990s). The collection includes newsletters, pamphlets, bibliographies, posters, organizing materials, position papers, essays, conference proceedings, meeting minutes and internal documents from various women’s organizations among others and covers topics including women’s health, discrepancies in employment and pay, female sexuality, women in academia, violence against women, the Equal Rights Amendment, women in the arts, religion, politics and various women’s organizations.

Barnard Center for Research on Women

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In 1971, Barnard students, faculty, and staff founded the Barnard Women’s Center, the first of its kind in the country. BCRW’s founding took place in the midst of feminist, Black freedom, anti-war, and Third World Liberation movements, international student mobilizations, and the parallel creation of Black studies, ethnic studies, and women’s studies programs at universities across the country. For more than fifty years, BCRW has built a bridge between students, scholars, activists, artists, neighbors, and our communities beyond New York through public events, publications, multimedia projects, and working groups.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Library of Congress

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The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection is a library of nearly 800 books and pamphlets documenting the suffrage campaign that were collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress on November 1, 1938. The bulk of the collection is derived from the library of Carrie Chapman Catt, president of NAWSA from 1900-1904, and again from 1915-1920. Additional materials were donated to the NAWSA Collection from the libraries of other members and officers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, and Mary A. Livermore.

In Sisterhood: the Women's Movement in Pittsburgh

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In Sisterhood: the Women’s Movement in Pittsburgh is a community based oral history project documenting the history of the women’s movement in the Pittsburgh region, 1967-1989, by collecting 70 oral histories on digital video to provide a rich new source of regional and national history.  The oral history project focuses on the local roots of the national women’s movement. It features local grassroots activists who toiled to bring about systemic change for women here and elsewhere. Their stories will be a testament to the role of social movements in a democratic society. They will also serve as a lasting tribute to these honorable women and men, allowing them to continue to inspire civic action and foster regional pride among future generations.

Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection, Tulane University

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The Newcomb Archives acquires, preserves, and makes accessible materials documenting the rich history of women and gender in the Gulf South. Our collection highlights the papers of several second-wave feminist activists who advocated for reproductive rights, social justice, environmental activism, and civic engagement in Louisiana. In addition, Newcomb Archives is home to the administrative and student records of the former Newcomb College, the papers, scrapbooks, and oral histories of Newcomb College alumnae and the organizational records documenting the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women and its programming. 

Carey Shuart Women’s Research Collection, University of Houston

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The Carey C. Shuart Women’s Research Collection contains the records of women’s organizations and the papers of Texas women. These materials document a range of women’s issues, the ways in which women have come together to achieve their collective goals, and the impact that they have had on the world around them. The archive continues to expand with new collections in fulfilling its mission to gather and preserve unique materials for research.

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries

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ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries is the oldest existing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and one of the largest repositories of LGBTQ materials in the world. Located in Los Angeles, California, ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries since 2010. ONE Archives' collections contain over two million items including periodicals; books; film, video and audio recordings; photographs; artworks; ephemera, such as clothing, costumes, and buttons; organizational records; and personal papers. Use of the collections is free during regular business hours. ONE Archives originated from the One Institute (formerly ONE, Inc. and One Archives Foundation), which began publishing the earliest national homosexual publication in 1952. In 1956, ONE Inc. created the ONE Institute, an academic institute for the study of homosexuality, utilizing the term "Homophile Studies." In 1994, ONE, Inc. and the International Gay and Lesbian Archives run by Jim Kepner merged. The organization has operated solely as an LGBTQ archive since 1994, and it has been a part of the USC Libraries system since 2010. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.

Glasgow Women’s Library

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Glasgow Women's Library is a public library, registered company and charity based in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only accredited museum dedicated to women's history and provides information relevant to women's culture and achievements.