Women political activists

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,...

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.