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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:

Mary Wimmer Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4595
Scope and Contents

Materials in this collection include: negative slide photographs from two Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) rallies Wimmer attended (Washington D.C [1981] and Raleigh, NC [1982]), a framed ERA poster, an oversized ERA banner, two ERA sashes, and an ERA foam hat. All materials are from ERA marches in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

Dates: 1970-1983 and undated

Maryat Lee, Playwright, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3300
Overview Maryat Lee (1923-1989) was an American playwright and theater director who made important contributions to post-World War II avant-garde theater. She pioneered street theater in Harlem and later founded EcoTheater in West Virginia, a community-based theater project. Materials include reports, newsletters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, posters, manuscripts, notes, scripts, screenplays, published plays, genealogical research, journals, drawings,...
Dates: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1951-1989

Mountain People's Cooperative Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2527
Scope and Contents

Includes co-op newsletters, circulars, promotional literature, business correspondence, discussions and decisions of the managing committee and daily operating notes from the workers of a Morgantown, West Virginia, grocery store. There are also editorials on liberation movements and trade unionism.

Dates: 1976-1978

National Organization for Women, West Virginia and Morgantown Chapters, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3247
Overview

Administrative records of the National Organization for Women (NOW), West Virginia Chapter, including records of task forces on the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion, and discrimination. There are also records of efforts to lobby the state legislature on behalf of women, as well as papers documenting relations with other civic groups on issues of economics, education, labor, and racism.

Dates: 1966-1990, and undated

Regina Charon, Lawyer, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4573
Scope and Contents The collection includes biographies about Regina Charon's life and life's work as a lawyer, focusing on civil rights; papers regarding the 1977-1978 Council for Women's Concerns, the Regina Charon Zealous Advocate Award, and fellowships; and photocopies of various issues of the West Virginia University College of Law newsletter from 1975. The collection also includes photographs of Regina Charon's life from childhood through adulthood.Addendum of 2024 May 03 includes materials...
Dates: 1947-2016

Socialist Workers Party Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2709
Overview Materials from several political campaigns are among the papers, including those of Rosalinda Flint's 1978 campaign for the U.S. Senate; Brian Williams' 1978 campaign for West Virginia House of Delegates, 27th District; Tom Moriarty's 1980 campaign for West Virginia Governor; and the 1980 campaign to elect Andrew Pulley and Mathilde Zimmermann as President and Vice-President, respectively, of the United States. The campaign papers address such issues as occupational health and safety,...
Dates: 1978-1980

West Virginia University, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Time Capsule

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5234
Content Description This collection consists of a partial duplication of the contents of the West Virginia University Center for Women's and Gender Studies time capsule. The contents include materials regarding the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and West Virginia University campus events and programs, as well as the current state of Morgantown, the state of West Virginia, the United States, and the world. Materials include letters to students of the future, programs, brochures, news clippings, and button...
Dates: 2016

West Virginia University, Medical School, History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2046
Overview Seventeen (17) volumes in 18 books containing the typescript history of the West Virginia University Medical School, 1869-1964, as compiled by Dr. E.J. VanLiere and Dr. G.S. Dodds. It represents research material, too, which VanLiere and Dodds gathered for their history, including correspondence, photographs, charts, maps and pamphlets. Volumes contain lists of women who graduated from the medical school, correspondence with them, and completed survey forms. Generally, this collection...
Dates: 1964

West Virginia University, Student Anti-War Movement, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2506
Overview

Materials concerning West Virginia University student activities in opposition to the Vietnam War in 1969 and 1970. Includes announcements of meetings and demonstrations, campus newsletters, anti-war literature, and publicity of other student concerns.

Dates: 1969-70

West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5048
Dates: 1885-2001, and undated