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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 37 Collections and/or Records:

West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5048
Scope and Contents The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center, now called the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include...
Dates: 1885-2002 and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5052
Overview

The collection contains materials from West Virginia University's (WVU) Women’s Studies Center, renamed the Center for Women's and Gender Studies in 2012. It primarly consists of records and recordings created about the various WVU women's organizations between 1972 and 2000, including the Caucus for Women's Concerns (CWC), the Council for Women's Concerns (CWC),the Women's Information Center (WIC), the Center for Women's Studies, and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

Dates: 1972-2000, and undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5131
Scope and Contents Records of the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center. Includes administrative records, syllabi, photographs, audio recordings, and conference materials. Also includes records of the Council for Women’s Concerns and the Dickinson Symposium Conferences. Materials date from 1838-2013, with the bulk dating from 1970-2000. Addendum of 2018-05-31 (boxes 10– 21 includes administrative records pertaining to the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, including materials on the...
Dates: ca. 1838-2013; Majority of material found within 1970-2005
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Women's Centenary, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3376
Overview

Includes primarily papers on the West Virginia University Women's Centenary Project (WCP), such as exhibit material, correspondence, photographs, and research notes. Also includes records regarding women's issues and conferences. Addendum of 2012/08/14 includes one framed crayon portrait of Mary Louvinia Brown. Please note that this collection has been minimally processed. See Historical Note for more information on Mary Louvinia Brown.

Dates: circa 1860s-2000 and undated; Majority of material found within 1980s-1990s
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Women's Information Center Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3635
Overview

Records of the Women's Information Center of Morgantown, West Virginia. Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters, clippings, and other material.

Dates: 1973-1993
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Womynkind Foundation Newsletters and Other Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4515
Scope and Contents Two binders of "Womyn's Community Newsletters" (briefly titled "Women's Community Newsletter") of the Womynkind Foundation of Charleston, WV. These newsletters include short stories, poetry, and art created by various local female and LGBTQ+ authors and community members, monthly event calendars, assorted advertisements and flyers for other women's and LGBTQ+ organizations, and other material. This collection also includes several budgets for potluck dinners and other events put on by the...
Dates: 1990-1997
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

WV FREE Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4508
Scope and Contents

This collection includes WV FREE materials regarding reproductive rights advocacy. WV FREE is a reproductive health, rights and justice organization. Formats include newsletters, press clippings, flyers and news releases, printed materials, etc.

Dates: 1993-2008
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center