Women
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
AAUW Detroit Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002481
Abstract
The American Association of University Women Detroit (AAUW Detroit) is a branch of the AAUW, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower women and improve their lives. Established in 1889, AAUW Detroit is the oldest branch of the AAUW of Michigan. It is also the oldest continuously active women’s organization in Detroit. They advocate for issues related to education, politics and economics, promoting their mission through education, and research. They also maintain leadership...
Dates:
1942 - 1999
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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AAUW Detroit Records
Ada I. Pressman Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001944
Abstract
Ada Irene Pressman was a mechanical engineer who specialized in developing emergency safety systems for fossil-fired and nuclear power plants. Pressman was a registered Professional Engineer in both Arizona and California, where she worked for Bechtel Corporation for 32 years in various positions. Pressman was actively involved in professional engineering organizations, including serving as president of the Society of Women Engineers from 1979 to 1980. The material in these papers represent...
Dates:
1950 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1985
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Ada I. Pressman Papers
AFSCME Program Development Department Records, Part 1 and 2
Collection
Identifier: LR002203
Abstract
The AFSCME Program Development Department was created in January of 1973 to deal with matters such as health care, the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, employee protections, career development, and sex discrimination. It was funded by federal grant money until 1975 when the funds ran out, the department was disbanded, and its several functions were taken over by other AFSCME departments.
The records in Part I reflect the Department's concerns with women's issues, sex...
Dates:
1964 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1975
AFSCME Women's Rights Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001993
Abstract
The records in this collection focus on comparable worth and job evaluation in state governments. The majority of the collection is comprised of consultants’ proposals to state and local government committees to conduct studies addressing issues of pay equity and job evaluation and ranking systems. Some correspondence exists that documents the evaluation and selection of these proposals by state committees and the national AFSCME office. General information and reports about various job...
Dates:
1974 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1983 - 1986
Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP001725
Abstract
Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner wrote a stage adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," as her master's thesis while earning a Master of Arts degree in English at Wayne State University. After obtaining the stage rights for the novel, the play "To Gleam It Around, To Show My Shine" was first performed in 1983 at Wayne State's Hilberry Theater. "To Gleam" and other works by Rattner have been produced in several theaters, mostly on the East Coast. Rattner worked as an...
Dates:
1961 - 2015
Carl Cohen Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000663
Abstract
Carl Cohen (born 1931) was elected chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan in 1971. His papers reflect his work with the Michigan ACLU, as well as the stance of the ACLU on various issues, both local and national. The collection includes correspondence, memos, press releases and clippings dealing with many civil liberty issues, as well as organizational documents of the ACLU of Michigan.
Dates:
1966 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1971 - 1974
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Carl Cohen Papers
Detroit-Area Feminists Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: UOH001852
Abstract
In 2003 Sarah Arvey interviewed 17 Detroit-area second-wave feminists, under the auspices of the Michigan arm of the Veteran Feminists of America, a nonprofit organization chronicling the modern women's movement. Collection consists of transcripts of these 17 interviews. The women interviewed talk about their lives, careers, families, what influenced them to become feminists, and their feminist activism. Included are observations on their solidarity with and intersections of their work with the...
Dates:
2003
Detroit Feminist Women's Health Center Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001063
Abstract
Subjects include: women’s health issues; abortion; birth control; feminism; lesbians
Dates:
1961 - 1980
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Inc. Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001290
Abstract
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) grew out of an attempt by a group of ten young women in 1914 to provide Detroit with culture. A permanent home, Orchestra Hall, was built in 1919 by C. Howard Crane. The DSO performs regular subscription and special concerts, as well as provides a number of special events and programs outside of Orchestra Hall. The records of the DSO relate its administration, marketing, and public relations, as well as the orchestra's community outreach, cultural...
Dates:
1950 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1986
Detroit Women's Press Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001470
Abstract
Subjects include: Women's Liberation Coalition of Michigan; feminism
Dates:
1969 - 1975
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000122
Abstract
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) as a high school student in 1906, but left school a year later to dedicate herself to organizing full time. A gifted and popular speaker, over the next several years she participated in IWW free speech and legal defense fund-raising campaigns and helped organize the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes. A tireless defender of labor and political agitators facing deportation, Ms. Flynn helped found the ACLU in 1920, only to...
Dates:
1956 - 1964
Ellen Hippeli Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP002182
Abstract
Ellen Hippeli taught high school mathematics for nearly a decade and had just received her masters degree in education when, in 1952, she left her civilian career to join the United States Air Force. Following basic training, she was sent to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and in 1955 earned a bachelors degree in physics, specializing in nuclear engineering effects. Hippeli spent several years at the USAF Special Weapons Center, where she tested the effects of nuclear radiation on humans....
Dates:
1922 - 2007
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Ellen Hippeli Papers
Folklore Archive: Student Field Projects Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WSAV002714
Abstract
The Folklore Archive, established in 1939 by WSU English professors Emlyn Gardner and Thelma James, contains the oldest and largest record of urban folk traditions in the United States. To document these traditions, Wayne State University students conducted field research projects, some of which included photographic records. Collection consists of 71 projects (or aggregations of multiple projects on a single topic) conducted by student interviewer-collectors. Student field research projects...
Dates:
1958 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1969 - 1980
Grace Hospital Women's Auxiliary Records
Collection
Identifier: UR002645
Abstract
Subjects include: women volunteers in social service; Diabetic Children's Camp
Dates:
1939 - 1983; Majority of material found within 1942 - 1977
Hutzel Hospital Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001572
Abstract
In November, 1868, seven members of the Ladies’ Christian Union opened the Woman’s
Hospital and Foundlings’ Home in a tenement at Cass Avenue and Montcalm Street, a private, non-profit institution and the first facility in Detroit dedicated to providing care and shelter for abandoned, widowed and unwed mothers and their babies. In 1965, Woman’s Hospital changed its name to Hutzel Hospital and continued its devotion to research into the diseases of women. It is now part of the Detroit Medical...
Dates:
1868 - 1994
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Hutzel Hospital Records
International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001689
Abstract
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) held the first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) June 15-21, 1964, to coincide with the SWE National Convention and the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, New York. Although ICWES planners originally estimated 300 participants, the conference brought together over 500 people from more than 35 countries to discuss the role of women engineers and the future of engineering. Following the success of the first ICWES (later...
Dates:
1961 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1961 - 1996
Joan Israel Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000797
Abstract
One of the first members of the Detroit chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Joan Israel served two terms as president of the chapter. Ms. Israel organized and chaired the NOW Child Care Committee and acted as head of a Detroit Common Council committee that led to the formation of the Wayne County Child Care Council. Ms. Israel’s papers reflect her involvement in the women’s movement and childcare advocacy, and detail the growth of the women’s movement in southeastern Michigan.
Dates:
1966 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Joan Israel Papers
Joyce Hennessee Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001524
Abstract
Joyce Hennessee worked for Chrysler Corporation Management Information Systems. Her papers reflect her membership in various organizations concerned with working womens' issues.
Dates:
1970 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Joyce Hennessee Papers
League of Women Voters of Detroit Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001402
Abstract
The Detroit League of Women Voters, formed in 1919, promotes political responsibility through informed and active participation in government. Their records consist of a report on women's credit rights in Detroit.
Dates:
1979 - 1980
Lily Lampinen Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000836
Abstract
The papers of Lily Lampinen reflect her personal interest in a variety of important social and political issues, particularly civil rights for minorities.
Dates:
1960 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Lily Lampinen Papers
Marjorie Jackson Levin Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000828
Abstract
Marjorie Jackson Levin and Patricia Burnett founded the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and served as Vice-President for Public Relations and as head of NOW's Speakers Bureau. Ms. Levin's papers reflect her involvement in women's advocacy on a local and national level, particularly her work with NOW, and includes materials concerning Ms. Levin's television talk show, "A Woman's Place."
Dates:
1970 - 1973
Mary White Ovington Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000323_MWO
Abstract
Mary White Ovington began her career as a social worker, devoting her efforts to the problems of African-Americans in New York and other cities. She helped found the National Association for Advancement of Colored People and remained an officer and prominent figure until her retirement in 1947. Her papers reflect her interest and involvement with the living conditions of the poor in New York City and African-Americans in the south in the early 1900s; the foundation and growth of the NAACP; the...
Dates:
1854 - 1948
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Mary White Ovington Papers
Michigan Dance Archives: Harriet Berg Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP001608
Abstract
Harriet Berg (born 1924) was a choreographer, teacher, performer, and arts advocate in the Detroit area for many decades. Her papers reflect her interests in all aspects of dance and other performing and fine arts, including material on a wide variety of dance companies and individual dancers, local, national and international. Some of the papers reflect her personal life as well as that of her family members. Part 1 includes materials on many aspects of dance and other performing and fine...
Dates:
1925 - 2014; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1995
Morag McLeod Simchak Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000905
Abstract
Morag McLeod Simchak began her career with the United Rubber Workers International Union before she embarked on a government career with the Department of Labor. She was recognized as their leading expert on several Acts dealing with equal rights for workers. Her papers are a reflection of her efforts to achieve equality for working women, in particular.
Dates:
1955 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1961 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Morag McLeod Simchak Papers
National Organization for Women (NOW): Downriver Chapter Records
Collection
Identifier: UR001227
Abstract
The Downriver chapter of NOW was formed in 1974 by Loretta Moore, a Wayne State University professor, who was elected the chapter’s first president. The chapter was
active in supporting local, state and national policy concerning women’s rights,
participated in marches, rallies and walkathons and also endorsed pro-women’s rights
candidates. They hosted and participated in numerous programs for local women, set up
networks and resources for the community, established a library for members...
Dates:
1971 - 1994