Pathfinder in the Legal Aspects of Women. Labor Administration and Social Security: A Woman's Life. Willa Baum, Department Head, Regional Oral History Office Malca Chall, Director Suffragists Oral History Project The Office is under the administrative supervision of James D. The Regional Oral History Office was established to tape record autobiographical interviews with persons prominent in the Unit two will focus on interviews with politically active and successful women who are incumbents in elective office today. The Suffragists Project as conceived by the Regional Oral History Office is to be the first unit in a series on women in politics. The National Woman's Party, but was not well enough to tape record that story) produced the entire series of Equal Rights and those volumes of the Suffragist missing from Alice Paul's collection negotiations are currently underway so that these in-party organs can be available In the process of research, a conference with Anita Politzer (who served more than three decades in the highest offices of The grant, made in April, 1973, also provided for the deposit of all the completed interviews in five major manuscript repositories The grant request submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation covered funding both to complete these already-recorded interviewsĪnd to broaden the scope and enrich the value of the project by the inclusion of several women not part of the leadership. Both Valeska Bary and Jeannette Rankin died within a few months of their last interviewing A small grant from a local donor permitted Malca Chall to record four Welfare movement, taped interviews with Valeska Bary. Jacqueline Parker, who was doing post-doctoral research on the history of the social Of the Feminist History Research Project in Los Angeles, who has been recording interviews with women active in the suffrageĬampaigns and the early labor movement. A number of these interviews were conducted by Sherna Gluck, Director TheĪge of the women-74 to 104-was a compelling motivation. Planning for the Suffragists Project and some preliminary interviews had been undertaken prior to receipt of the grant. Others are Valeska Bary, Jessie Haver Butler, Miriam Allen de Ford, Ernestine Kettler, Laura Ellsworth Seiler, Among this group is Jeannette Rankin, whoĬapped a successful campaign for suffrage in Montana with election to the House of Representatives, the first woman to achieve Seven interviews are with women who campaignedįor suffrage at state and local levels, working with other suffrage organizations. They are Sara Bard Field,īurnita Shelton Matthews, Alice Paul, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, and Mabel Vernon. Five held important positions in the National Woman's Party. The project, underwritten by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, enabled the Regional Oral History Office to record first-handĪccounts of this early period in the development of women's rights with twelve women representing both the leadership and The contribution of this small but highly active group has been the major focus of the series. Because the existingĭocumentation of the suffrage struggle indicates a need for additional material on the campaign of the National Woman's Party, Of movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. In order to document their activities in behalf of passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and their continuing careers as leaders The Suffragists Oral History Project was designed to tape record interviews with the leaders of the woman's suffrage movement Preface to Suffragists Oral History Project
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