142. Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Papers of the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society. Philadelphia: Historic Publications; c1969. 5 reels.
This collection is owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Includes the minutes from 1787 to 1916, and an unusually extensive manuscript collection dating from 1787 through 1868. The collection is summarized and analyzed in a history of the Society by William J. Buck, which is in manuscript form included herein.
Call no: microfm E335 Mic.
Slavery in the U.S. -- Societies/Slavery in the U.S. -- Pennsylvania/Abolitionists/Pennsylvania Historical Society/African-American studies.
143. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). Papers of the Republican Party. Kesaris, Paul, editor. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America; c1986-. 51 reels. (Research collections in American politics).
Note: Guide to the collection has call no. JK2356.R46P36 1986.
Contents: Part I: Meetings of the Republican National Committee. Series A: 1911-1960 (18 reels); Series B: 1960-1980 (18 reels). Includes meeting records of the National Committee, its executive committee, special committees, and convention committees (call, site, arrangement, contests, and rules). Part II: Reports and Memoranda of the Research Division of the Headquarters of the RNC, 1938-1980 (15 reels). Includes studies of campaign and election analyses, studies of population and voting trends, public policy research, analysis of opposing candidates and political organizations, review of development in election law and legislative activites.
Call no: microfm JK2356.R46 1986 Mic.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Archives/Republican National Committee (U.S.). Research Division.
144. Socialist Party (U.S.). Socialist Party of America papers, 1897-1964 : microfilm of ms. collection in the Duke University Library. Glen Rock, N. J.: Microfilming Corporation of America; 1975. 142 reels.
Note: Socialist Party of America papers, a guide to the microfilm edition has call number: HX89.S63 1897.
Organized in five distinct series: National Office papers; Youth and the Young People's Socialists League papers; State and local files; Related organization files (e. g., League for Industrial Democracy, Southern Tenants Farmers Union, Americans for Democratic Action, and the ACLU); Printed materials.
Call no: microfm HX91 Mic.
Socialist Party (U.S.) -- History -- Sources/Socialism -- United States -- History -- Sources.
145. Russell Sage Foundation. The Russell Sage Foundation social research and social action in America, 1907-1947. [Frederick, Md.]: CIS Academic Editions; c1988. 379 microfiches.
Note: Accompanied by guide (114 p.) by D.C. Hammack, call no. HV97.R8R878 1988.
Between 1907 and 1947 Foundation's staff conducted extensive research and issued frequent reports. Problems examined included industrial safety, education, infant mortality, sanitation, tuberculosis, illiteracy, recreation, prisons, and the organization and distribution of social services. In addition to reports, collection comprises minutes of the Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, and other unpublished documents. Also included are runs of periodicals Charity Organization Bulletin and Social Case History Series, and an official history of the Foundation.
Call no: microfm HV97.R8R877 1988 Mic.
Russell Sage Foundation -- History -- Sources/Charities -- United States -- History -- Sources.
146. Temperance and prohibition papers : a joint microfilm publication of the Ohio Historical Society, Michigan Historical Collections and Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Lentz, Andrea D., project director. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Historical Society; 1977. 49 reels.
Note: Accompanying guide has call no. HV5296.G84.
Part 1. Organizations: Mid-19th century temperance movement; Prohibition Party, D.C. Anti-Saloon League, Scientific Temperance Federation. Consists of minutes, correspondence, papers, speeches, pamphlets, periodicals, and scrapbooks of the named organizations, and the personal papers of Mary Hunt, founder of the STF. [Part 2?] Papers of the American Issue Publishing Company, publisher of the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem (published 1909-1964, including correspondence with political, business, and other persons, and pamphlets. Part 3. Periodicals: Runs of American Issue, American Patriot, National Daily, New Republic, and Union Signal. Collection documents relationships between temperance movement and abolition, woman's suffrage, political and civil service reform, labor unionism, and peace and disarmament (#).
Call no: microfm HV169 Mic.
Temperance -- History -- Sources/Prohibition -- United States -- Societies, etc/Alcoholism -- United States -- History -- Sources/Liquor laws -- United States -- Sources/Women's Christian Temperance Union/Women's studies.
147. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom papers, 1915-1978. Sanford, N.C: Microfilming Corporation of America; 1983. 114 reels.
Note: Accompanying guide has call no. JK1965.W7 (RR4).
Founded under leadership of Jane Addams and Aletta Jacobs, WILPF came to be one of the most influential of all international women's organizations. League concerns include anti-Semitism, civil rights, pacifism, Third World, nuclear disarmament, political prisoners, and the United Nations. Collection comprises League archives and publications. Half the documents in collection are in English; the remainder are in German, French, and other languages. Contents: Series I: International Executive Committee, 1915-1978. Correspondence, records, reports, international congress papers; Series II: Individual correspondence, 1915-1968. Source of background information on WILPF members such as Jane Addams, Gertrude Baer; Series III: National Sections and Other Countries, 1914-1978. Series IV: Topics, 1918-1975. Topical file from Geneva headquarters; Series V: Printed matter, 1915-1978.
Call no: microfm JX44 Mic.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom/Women's studies.
148. Bureau of Social Hygiene (New York, N.Y.). Project and research files, 1913-1940. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources Inc; 1980, c1979. 31 reels.
Note: Accompanying guide to the collection on microfilm has call no. HV99.N5G92.
Bureau of Social Hygiene was formed in 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and others for "the study, amelioration, and prevention of those social conditions, crimes, and diseases which adversely affect the well-being of society." BSH sponsored research, education, and publication in the areas of social welfare, eugenics, prostitution, vice control, narcotics, birth control, juvenile delinquency, criminology, and police organization. Collection comprises project file, relating to studies funded by the BSH, and the director's file of correspondence and reports on research.
Call no: microfm HV172 Mic.
Bureau of Social Hygiene (New York, N.Y.) -- Archives/Rockefeller Archive Center.
149. League of Women Voters (U.S.). Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918-1974. Susan Ware, advisory editor. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America; c1985-. 98 microfilm reels. (Research collections in women's studies).
Note: Accompanying guide to the collection on microfilm has call no. JF848.P23.
Part I: Meetings of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committees: Minutes and Related Documents, 1918-1974 (14 reels). Part II: Transcripts and Records of the National Conventions and of General Councils. Series A: 1919-1944 (20 reels). Series B: 1945-1974 (30 reels). Part III: National Office Subject Files, 1920-1932. Includes standing committee files on such topics as women in industry, women's legal status, child welfare, social hygiene, efficiency in government.
Call no: microfm JF13 Mic.
Women in public life -- United States/Women in politics -- United States/United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century/Women's studies.
150. Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Series 1, Womans's suffrage. Anne Firor Scott, consulting editor. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America; 1990-. 141 microfilm reels. (Research collections in women's studies).
Note: Guide to the microfilm collection has call no. JK1896.D7 1990.
Contents: Part A: National leaders (18 reels). Major collections include papers of Anna Howard Shaw, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Julia Ward Howe, and smaller collections of Carrie Chapman Catt and Lucy Stone. Part B: New York (15 reels). Part C: The South (8 reels). Part D: New England (65 reels). Part E: Midwest and Far West (35 reels). Major collections include that of Illinois suffrage movement, esp. papers of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, which also document her activities to reform higher education and family law in Illinois and end bias against women in the Chicago bar.
Call no: microfm JK1896.W65 1990 Mic.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Sources/Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources/Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America/Women's studies.
151. Women's suffrage in Wisconsin. Part I. Records of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, 1892-1925. Anne Firor Scott, editorial director. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America; c1989. 18 microfilm reels. (Research collections in women's studies Grassroots women's organizations).
Note: Filmed from the records of the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Collection contains letters and reports from local suffrage leaders, correspondence with national suffragist leaders. 1911-12 state campaign for suffrage law especially well documented. See related Papers of Ada Lois James, President of the Political Equity League of Wisconsin, part 2 of this series.
Call no: microfm JK1883.W6W65 1989 Mic.
Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association -- Archives/Women -- Suffrage -- Wisconsin -- History -- Sources/Women's studies.
152. James, Ada Lois, 1876-1952. Women's suffrage in Wisconsin. Part 2, The papers of Ada Lois James, 1816-1952. Anne Firor Scott, editorial director. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America; c1990. 24 microfilm reels. (Research collections in women's studies. Grassroots women's organizations).
Personal correspondence of James, a suffragist and social reformer, and key leader of the suffrage movement in Wisconsin. James broke with the mainstream movement in Wisconsin in favor of the more militant National Woman's Party. Filmed from holdings of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. See related Records of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association.
Call no: microfm JK1899.J35A3 1990 Mic.
James, Ada Lois, 1876-1952; Women -- Suffrage -- Wisconsin/Women's studies.
153. National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.). Records of The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992: Part I: Minutes of national conventions, publications, and president's office corrrespondence. Lillian Serece Williams, consulting editor. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America; c1993-. 26 reels. (Black studies research sources)(Research collections in women's studies).
Note: Printed guide has call number E185.86.B64 1994.
In local women's clubs African American women pooled their resources, coordinated their efforts, raised funds, launched charitable initiatives, and founded schools, hospitals, homes for delinquent youth, mother's clubs as they struggled against prejudice. Collection includes publications of state and local NACWC affiliates, including histories of many state and local clubs; National Convention Minutes, 1895-1992; National Notes, 1897-1992, a quarterly periodical reporting on affiliates; Presidents office correspondence from 1920 through 1958.
Call no: microfm E185.86.N36N374 1993 Mic.
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.) -- Archives/Afro-American women -- Societies and clubs -- Archives/Afro-American women -- History -- Sources/Women -- Societies and clubs -- Archives/African-American studies/Women's studies.
154. Papers of the NAACP. editorial adviser, August Meier; edited by Randolph Boehm. Frederick, Md: University Publications of America; [1982?]-. 127 reels.
Note: Accompanying guide has call no. E185.5.N245G88.
The NAACP is the nation's oldest and most important civil rights organization. Materials in this collection are selected principally from files in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Library has Parts 1-5. Part 1: (28 reels) Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950. Provides the central organizational records of the first 40 years of the organization. Special reports on issues such as the KKK, discrimination in public employment, depiction of blacks in motion pictures, economic equality, black victims of crime, church and civil rights, misconceptions regarding heredity and the intelligence of blacks, and attitudes of black youth. Part 2: (20 reels) Personal Correspondence of Selected NAACP Officials, 1919-1939. Included are selections from Thurgood Marshall, Walter White, Charles Houston, Juanita Jackson, James Weldon Johnson, Roy Wilkins, and others. Part 3: (43 reels) Campaign for Educational Equality, 1913-1950. Documents legal battle to achieve unrestricted access to educational institutions. Files of the Garland Fund, teacher salary cases, university admissions cases, local school cases leading up to Brown v. Board of Education. Part 4: (13 reels) Voting Rights Campaign, 1916-1950. Complete NAACP legal department files and subject files related to voting rights: White primary cases; grandfather clause; literacy tests; registration abuses; intimidation and violence; poll taxes; legislative apportionment in the South; and women's suffrage. Part 5: (23 reels) Campaign against Residential Segregation, 1914-1955. Covers NAACP's efforts to combat segregation ordinances, restrictive covenants, discriminatory zoning ordinances, violence and mob actions against blacks, and discrimination in federal housing projects.
Call no: microfm E370 Mic.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People/School integration -- Southern States/Afro-Americans -- Civil rights -- United States/African-American studies.
155. California. Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots. Transcripts, depositions, consultants' reports, and selected documents. Los Angeles; 1965. 5 reels.
Note: Originals in Library of Congress.
Call no: microfm E256 Mic.
Los Angeles -- Riot, 1965/African-American Studies.
156. Harvard University Library: a documentary history. Kenneth E. Carpenter, editor. California, Md: University Publications of America; c1990. 463 microfiches.
Note: Guide to microfiches at call number Z733.H34H350 1990.
Materials from Library's archives, including reports, letters, library regulations, charging records, financial reports, catalogs, inventories, and lists of prohibited books.
Call no: microfm Z733.H34H35 1990 Mic.
Harvard University. Library -- History -- Sources/Libraries, university and college -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- History -- Sources.