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Pinellas County National Organization for Women (NOW) papers, bulk 1970s-2000s

 

Summary

Creator:
Oestreich, Sandy
Hainisch, May
Abstract:
Collection includes research and subject files from the leadership of Pinellas County's National Organization of Women chapter.
Extent:
9 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Pinellas County Chapter Papers, National Organization for Women (NOW) 1973-2004, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of two series reflecting two seperate accessions. The first accession series: general organizational records, legal and social advocacy, programs and public events, and other NOW chapters and affiliates. Second accession series includes: general organization records, electoral advocacy, and legal and social advocacy.

The general organizational records, advocacy files, agendas, meeting minutes, clippings, and program files illustrate the local NOW chapter's involvement in a variety of issues. Issues include advocacy for reproductive rights and criminal justice reform, preventing sexual harassment and violence towards women, and supporting the passage of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. Materials date from the late 1970s through the late 1990s.

Biographical / historical:

National Organization of Women is a "multi-issue, multi-strategy organization that takes a holistic approach to women's rights. Our priorities are winning economic equality and securing it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women's health issues; opposing racism; fighting bigotry against the LGBTQIA community; and ending violence against women" (https://now.org/).

Acquisition information:
Sandy Oestreich and May Hainisch, two longstanding members of the Pinellas County Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), donated a variety of research and subject files from their leadership of the Pinellas NOW chapter to the Special Collections and Archives.
Physical facet:
8 document boxes and 1 oversized box

Access and use

Restrictions:

None.

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Pinellas County Chapter Papers, National Organization for Women (NOW) 1973-2004, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA