Correspondence
1. Outgoing - Letters - March 17, 1973; February 24, 1974; March 17, 1974
2. Employment
3. ERA - 1970 - 1974
4. Legislators and Congressional leaders
5. Tennessee chapters - Oct. 6, 1971 - March 8, 1974
6. Tennessee NOW
7. National and Nashville NOW - 1970 - 1973
8. National NOW - 1971 - 1974
9. Other correspondence
Personal and Biographical
10. Resumes of Fran Crater
11. “Don’t Make Mother a Scapegoat” letter to the Tennessean by Fran Crater and accompanying letter
12. Newspaper article “ Graduate Student Picked NOW Leader” and Vanderbilt Calendar, Dec. 1974
13. E-mails re: Fran Crater and the Veterans of Feminist America
14. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) - campaign materials, bumper stickers, other - 1973 campaign for Lt. Governor, Virginia
15. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) - Newspaper articles from her campaign in 1973
16. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) “ The Flora Crater Campaign for Lt. Governor of Virginia” in The Woman Activist, September 1973 and other campaign materials
17. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) The Woman Activist campaign Handbook, August 26, 1973
18. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) The Woman Activist: an Action Bulletin for Women’s Rights, vol. 3, no. 9, September 1973; Flora Crater, ed. consultant
19. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) - “Crater for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, brochures
20. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) - Independent Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
21. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) Statements by Flora Crater, May 1973 - October 1973
22. Political Career of Flora Crater (mother-in-law) - Sample ballot, General election, November 6, 1973, Flora Crater for Lieutenant Governor
23. “Managerial Questions about Sex Discrimination in Employment” Nov. 20, 1973, papers for problems in Management III
24. “Public Management Practices: Affirmative Action for Women” Feb. 26, 1974 (for Dr. Barbara Greene)
25. “An Analysis of Urbanization” April 7, 1974, prepared for Urban Management Module
26. “Sex Discrimination and Affirmative Action” April 16, 1974 (20 pages)
Writings by Others
27. Beach, Diana Lee, reprint of “What’s in a Name?” January 1973
28. Gillenwater, Anne (Chairperson TN Commission on Status of Women) “Discrimination of Women as Viewed by Tennessee Women’s Organizations” August 1975
29. Henley, Nancy “Facing Down the Man”
30. Hernadez, Aileen C. “The Preening of America” in Star News, Pasadena, California 1971; “Revolution: From the Doll’s House to the White House!” Keynote Address to NOW – Los Angeles, California September 1971
31. Janeway, Elizabeth “Happiness and the Right to Choose”; “Breaking the Age Barrier”
Kempton, Sally review of The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer in The New York Times Book Review, April 25, 1971
32. Markoff, Helene S. “Signposts of Success” reprinted from The Bureaucrat, Fall 1972. “The Federal Women’s Program” reprinted from Public Administration Review, March/April 1972, Vol. xxxii, no.2 with other materials
33. Montagu, Ashley “The National Superiority of Women” in The Saturday Review, 1951
34. Rossi, Alice S. “Job Discrimination and What Women Can Do About It”
35. Syfers, Judy “I Want a Wife”
36. Tornabene, Lyn “The Liberation of Betty Friedan” in McCalls, May 1971
Subject Files - Abortion
1. Correspondence
2. Congressional Actions
3. Congressional Profiles – Votes
4. Groups supporting and against
5. Nashville Services and Actions
6. Newspaper Articles
7. Newspaper Articles
Subject Files - Employment
8. The Arts - “ Nancy Hanks”; “Lights!Camera! Women!”; “Is Women’s Lib Coming to the Philharmonic?”
9. AT and T
10. Compliance and Enforcement
11. Education, Work, and Earnings of Women
12. EEOC - Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
13. EEOC in Tennessee at Vanderbilt University
14. EEOC - Equal Employment Legislation before Congress; EEOC of 1971; Enforcement Power - Williams’ Bill - 1971
15. EEOC - Letter outlining mission of EEOC, June 28, 1972
16. EEOC Complaint
17. EEOC Complaints, 1972; 1974
18. EEOC - Charge of discrimination and related papers
19. F.E.W. (Federally Employed Women ) - Music City Chapter
20. General Mills
21. Labor Unions
22. OFCC (Office of Federal Contract Compliance ) “Employment Discrimination by Federal Contractors”; Olivetti
23. The Salvation Army
24. Sex Discrimination and Employment Practices - T.G. I. Friday’s Restaurant, Elliston Place, Nashville, Tennessee
25. Sex Segregated Help - Wanted Ads - Correspondence and other papers, 1971-1974
26. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - P.L.88 -352
27. U.S. Dept. of Labor - Affirmative Action Programs
28. U.S. Dept. of Labor - Equal Pay Act
29. U.S. Dept. of Labor - Facts and Information - Facts about Women’s Absenteeism and Labor Turnover and other papers
30. U.S. Dept. of Labor - Fair Labor Standards Act; Women’s Bureau - Publications
31. Newspaper and Magazine articles about women working
32. Newspaper and Magazine articles about women working
33. Newspaper and Magazine articles about women working
34. Newspaper and Magazine articles about women working
Subject Files - ERA
Contents of Fran Crater’s Notebook, May 1974
35. Notebook, May 1974 - The Equal Rights Amendment and Its Impact on Government - paper by Frances Crater April 29, 1974
36. Notebook, May 1974 - Rescission and Legal Authority Papers
37. Notebook , May 1974 - 1974 Dates and Events, 88 General Assembly State of Tennessee
Box 3
Subject Files - ERA
1. Notebook, May 1974 (Sections 1 - 7)
2. Notebook, May 1974 (Sections 8 - 16)
3. Notebook, May 1974 (Sections 17- 20)
4. Notebook, May 1974 ( 1974 Public Effect )
5. Notebook, May 1974, 1973 Newspapers and other materials
6. Notebook, May 1974, 1972 Newspapers and other materials
7. Notebook, May 1974, Passage by Congress, 1967 - 1972
8. Notebook, May 1974 - ERA - Pro
9. Notebook, May 1974 - ERA - Opposition
10. Notebook, May 1974 - “Impact Study of the Equal Rights Amendment” Subject: The Arizona Constitution and Statutes by Charlene M. Taylor and Stuart Herzog
11. Notebook, May 1974 - Poster
12. Articles - “What You Should Know About the ERA” by Claire Safran in Redbook, June 1973; “Here’s How” by Gayle White, March 1974; “The Working Woman” November 1972
13. Bayh, Senator Birch - Statement in Bayh Lines from Washington
14. The Church and ERA
15. Crater, Flora - “How Equal Rights Passed Senate - Crater’s Raiders” in Sunday Star, March 26, 1972
16. The Equal Rights Amendment - Senator Ervin’s Minority Report and the Yale Law Journal by Citizen’s Advisory Council on the Status of Women
17. Griffiths, Representative Martha - Statements and other papers
18. Koontz, Elizabeth Duncan - Statement in the U.S. Congressional Record, June 7, 1972; Sesler, William G. - Statement on ERA, October 24, 1970
19. Information Kit Index, Texts of ERA - a comparison
20. Information - ERA and the Draft; Joint Religious Statement on ERA; Resolutions in Congress since 1923; Questions; Source Material; Best Kept Secret of the 20th Century; the Double Standard in Insurance
21. Information papers
22. Information brochures
23. League of Women Voters of Virginia - ERA in Virginia, 1974 summary
24. Map of Ratifying States as of December 1973
25. Ratification by States
Box 4
Subject files - ERA
1. Rescission
2. Rescission 1973 - statement submitted to Tennessee Legislature
3. Resolutions
4. Support and Opposition
5. Tennessee Coalition, 1974
6. Tennessee Coalition
7. Tennessee Coalition
8. “The Equal Rights Amendment and the Tennessee Code”
9. Tennessee - Petitions
10. Tennessee Alert Letter ( to Governor Dunn)
11. Tennessee Alert Letter to Legislators
12. U.S. Congresssional Record, Vol. 117, no. 6, January 28, 1971; Vol. 118, no. 44, March 22, 1972
13. Votes by Congress
Subject files - NOW
14. Nashville - Agendas
15. Nashville - Board Meeting Minutes, 1976 Notebook
16. Nashville Chapter - implementing By-Laws
17. Nashville - Information brochure (multiple copies)
18. Nashville - Information brochure - Invitation to meet Wilma Scott Heide, Feb. 1-2, 1972
19. Nashville - Invitation letter; contribution letter, 1974
20. Nashville - Membership list
21. Nashville - Membership lists
22. Nashville - Membership lists - cards
23. Nashville - Membership lists - cards
24. Nashville - Membership and general information
25. Nashville - Membership and general information
26. Nashville - Membership and general information
27. Nashville - “The President’s Page”
28. Nashville - Statements and press releases
Box 5
1. Addresses - Political and Congresssional
2. Addresses - Membership rolls
3. Archives
4. By-laws and proposed by-laws changes
5. Chapters - Structure Plans
6. Film and slide shows
7. Financial information - budgets
8. Jaycees
9. Legal Defense and Education Fund
10. Legal Defense and Education Fund
11. Legal Defense and Education Fund “Equal Justice for Women” information brochure
12. Legislative Alert and other information
13. Legislative Office Report, November 1974 and related information
14. Legislative Office Reports, Washington, D.C.
15. Legislative Task Force for States
16. Litigation Policy
17. Membership Application
18. Political Action Research Congressional Profile Booklets
19. Public Relations Task Force and related papers
20. Revenue Sharing
21. Resolutions - National Convention 1973 - “Prostitution” Workshop Resolutions
22. Resolutions - National Convention September 1974
23. Southern Region - Addresses
24. Southern Regional Area Councils, 1972
25. Southern Regional (News, By-Laws, Guidelines, Resolutions, political resume of Judy Lightfoot, NOW Southern Regional Director)
26. Southern Regional NOW Conference Resolutions, October 20, 1974
27. Southern Regional Board Meeting – Nashville - January 1972 - Photographs from the Regional Meet, January 22, 1972 (dates but no identifications )
28. Southern Regional Board Meeting - Nashville - January 1972
29. Statement of Purpose
30. “Your NOW Dollar” December 5, 1970 Report
31. Information brochure “Accomplishments”
32. Information brochures
33. Information brochures
34. General information papers
35. General information papers - ideas
36. “Why Feminists Want Child Care”
37. Women’s Advocate Corps; Enforcement Report
38. National Action Resolutions, 4th Annual Conference, March 2 - 22, 1970
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