Date Range: 1966-1978 Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights activist and civil rights leader. She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and later became the Vice-Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in that capacity.
Digitized papers of Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin and their organization, the Daughters of Bilitis (the first lesbian rights organization in U.S. history - founded in 1955). Provides extensive information on the founding and growth of the homophile movement, especially the Daughters of Bilitis and The Ladder, including meeting minutes, correspondence, chapter records, membership data, and manuscripts.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1955-1984
With meeting minutes, briefing papers, correspondence, talking points, draft presidential remarks, speeches, newsclippings and more, this collection documents the evolution of The Special Assistant to the President for Women as it advised the President on women's issues, handled White House liaison with women's organizations and oversaw the work of the Office of Women's Programs.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Provides access to the full text of some significant and not widely held women's periodicals produced in the period 1786-1933; strong for writing relating to suffrage.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1786-1933
Fully searchable site of primary source documents (original and reproduced) from the Imperial War Museum in London, Air Ministry, League of Mercy and War Fund, Purple Cross Service, Russian Relief Fund and many other organizations. Provides evidence of the role of women in the European War.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1914-1918
Gale Archives Unbound: Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Beginning with international women's periodicals dating from 1786 to advocacy activities in the White House in the 1970s, this collection gives researchers in-depth insight into the history and momentum of a longstanding political movement.