West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: This subject heading serves to unite all of the collections held by WVU that pertain to this special collecting effort.
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Ancella Bickley, Historian, Research Papers regarding African-Americans
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4208
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the research, public service, and life of Ancella Bickley, writer, educator, speaker, and historian. Includes writings, research materials, and more, focusing on the history of African Americans in West Virginia and the black experience in West Virginia. Collected research materials are predominantly facsimiles. Printed formats include correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, typescript writings, publications, pamphlets, ephemera, speeches, articles,...
Dates:
1775-2018 (Includes facsimiles); Majority of material found within 1970-2011
Ann Magnuson, Performance Artist, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4387
Scope and Contents
Publications, sound recordings, and other material documenting the career of Ann Magnuson, an actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer who grew up in Charleston, West Virginia. She worked at Club 57 in New York, a gathering place for artists such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.Includes:Series 1. Publications and Excerpts, boxes 1-5, 1983-2018
Series 2. Performance and Other Posters, box 6, 1991-2018
Series 3. Performance Programs and Related...
Dates:
circa 1973-2020
Artemis Sisters Collective Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4561
Overview
The Artemis Sisters Collective was a local Morgantown, West Virginia feminist collective formed in September 1982 for the purpose of promoting women's empowerment through creative, political, and social engagement. The bulk of materials range in dates from 1980 to 1987 and include information regarding the SisterSpace Collective, various women's defense committees, musical acts, and social activism. Materials include posters, pamphlets, correspondence, cassette tapes, meeting minutes,...
Dates:
1980-1994, 2016-2024, and undated; Majority of material found within 1980-1994
Barbara E. Nailler Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4563
Scope and Contents
Papers of feminist activist Barbara E. Nailler. Includes framed poster from August 26 ERA march (“March Again for Equal Rights”) in Washington, D.C. with signatures (1977); photo of Barbara Nailler at ERA March in white costume, with tri-color sash, to honor American suffragettes (1977); photo of Lillian Waugh with Louise who lived above Wolf’s Head Books, Morgantown (1982); news clipping featuring Barbara Nailler’s remarks justifying Equal Rights Amendment (undated); fuchsia t-shirt...
Dates:
circa 1977-1989
Barbara Howe, Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3469
Overview
Papers of Barbara Howe, Professor of History and Director of the Women's Studies Center, documenting her extensive professional activities within West Virginia University and the WVU community involving history and women's concerns. Also contains addenda of 2012/01, 2013/02, 2014/05/03, and 2014/06/10. These addenda include newsletters, photographs, correspondence, and other material. See "Scope and Content Note" for details.
Dates:
1900-2014
Bonnie Brown Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4511
Scope and Contents
Papers of Bonnie Brown, feminist activist and politician who served in the West Virginia House of Delegates. The collection includes biographical sketches in the form of resumes and vitas as well as facsimiles of entries in reference works. Other documentation of her political career includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and campaign ads and flyers. Her feminist activism is documented with materials from her work for the International Year of the Woman (1977) including...
Dates:
circa 1944-2021; Majority of material found within 1972-1985
Carrie Koeturius Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4356
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials pertaining to Carrie Koeturius and her career at and connections with West Virginia University. Koeturius is an alumna of WVU, and has worked at WVU as manager of its Conference Center (1984), served as co-chair of the WVU Conference on Women and Creativity (1984), and was recipient of the Mary Catherine Buswell Award (1984). In 1984 she moved to California. Formats include clippings, correspondence, conference materials and publications, etc.
Dates:
1982-2011
Carroll Wilkinson Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4576
Scope and Contents
Papers of West Virginia University faculty Librarian, Carroll Wilkinson. Wilkinson worked for the University libraries for 41 years, taking on various roles. She was also heavily involved with the West Virginia University Women and Gender Studies Program, working closely with themes of women in non-traditional workplaces and coal. The collection includes materials on the West Virginia University Libraries and the Center for Women’s Studies. For the WVU Libraries series of the collection,...
Dates:
1978-circa 2010s
Christine Weiss Daugherty Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4509
Scope and Contents
This collection includes materials pertaining to Christine Weiss Daugherty, an advocate in issues related to women's economic equality, rural economic development, non-profit management, and more. Materials in this collection include correspondence, publications, business records, ephemera, photographs, and more.Addendum 2020 August 28, includes materials from various Kellogg Hellows Leadership Alliance meetings and conferences. Also included are materials on urban development....
Dates:
circa 1948-2021 and undated
Collection of West Virginia Zines
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4283
Scope and Contents
A collection of zines by West Virginia authors and artists containing poetry, artwork, and activist literature. Creators include Emily Prentice, Alexandra Miller, Liz Pavlovic, Filler Distro, and Jen Iskow, among others. Also includes issues of The Travelin Appalachian Revue and Sunday Paper, as well as an article about the Morgantown Zine Fest in October 2017 and a t-shirt. Most of the zines are artistic in nature without a specific theme, but others relate to populist, communist, and...
Dates:
2007-2017