League of Women Voters (U.S.) records, 1884-1986 (bulk 1920-1979).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: Mixed materialsMixed materialsDescription: 514,400 items; 2,221 containers plus 24 oversize; 98 microfilm reels; 900 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Microfilm edition produced by University Publications of America, Inc., available for selections from records at the League's national headquarters, Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, no. 20,228.
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  • Microfilm described in catalog record 87-14773.
Summary: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proceedings, speeches, reports, project studies, subject files, biographical material, financial records, newspapers clippings, printed matter, and other records concerning the league's activities at the national, state, and local levels. Documents the organization's lobbying efforts, national conventions and council meetings, and projects of the League of Women Voters Education Fund. Topics include child labor and welfare, citizen participation in the inner cities, civil rights, civil service, consumer issues, education, election law, environment, ERAmerica and the Equal Rights Amendment, federal-state relations, health, housing, immigration, international relations and trade, labor, military spending, national security, patriotism, needs and rights of the poor, race relations, the suffrage movement, United Nations, voter education, water quality and related land use, welfare, and women's legal status and rights.
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Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proceedings, speeches, reports, project studies, subject files, biographical material, financial records, newspapers clippings, printed matter, and other records concerning the league's activities at the national, state, and local levels. Documents the organization's lobbying efforts, national conventions and council meetings, and projects of the League of Women Voters Education Fund. Topics include child labor and welfare, citizen participation in the inner cities, civil rights, civil service, consumer issues, education, election law, environment, ERAmerica and the Equal Rights Amendment, federal-state relations, health, housing, immigration, international relations and trade, labor, military spending, national security, patriotism, needs and rights of the poor, race relations, the suffrage movement, United Nations, voter education, water quality and related land use, welfare, and women's legal status and rights.

Microfilm edition produced by University Publications of America, Inc., available for selections from records at the League's national headquarters, Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, no. 20,228.

Microfilm of originals in: League of Women Voters (U.S.) national headquarters and the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.).

League of Women Voters (U.S.) national headquarters and Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.

Audiovisual materials transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

National American Woman Suffrage Association formed in February 1919; in 1920 the association's section, League of Women Voters, became an independent organization under the name National League of Women Voters (later the League of Women Voters of the United States).

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010323

Published guide to the microfilm edition available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.

Microfilm described in catalog record 87-14773.

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