Guide to
Manuscripts for Women's Rights Resources
The Advocates
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/advocates.shtml
A PBS program designed to stimulate public participation and understanding by focusing on realistic choices that must be made in the future, by having both sides of the question presented, and by demonstrating the interest which public officials have in both reasoned arguments and the views of their constituents. Program topics varied depending on current news and concerns of the public. The program ran from October 5, 1969 through May 23, 1974; then again bi-weekly from January 26, 1978 through September 9, 1979.
Benedict, Anne Scales
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/benedicta.shtml
Mrs. Benedict spent many years working to improve the status
of women at Vanderbilt. She was instrumental in the fund drive to raise money
to build a women's dormitory and to secure the first Dean of Women, Ada Bell
Stapleton. Over the years she also devoted her organizational skills and fund
raising abilities to helping Scarritt College, the West End Methodist Church,
and the Red Cross.
Green, Sue Kirtland
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/greensd.shtml
Mrs. Susie Daniel Kirtland Green (1887-1967), an associate of Margaret Sanger, operated the first birth control clinic in Tennessee at 2204 21st Avenue, South, Nashville, Tennessee, from 1932 to about 1941. In 1941 she began to sell Fem-A-Gyn contraceptive suppositories, which she developed from a recipe that Margaret Sanger included in her "Family Limitation" pamphlet. The collection documents her professional life as a birth control advocate.
Hendrix, Nancy
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/hendrixn.shtml
Nancy Hendrix, a Vanderbilt alumna was active in the establishment and development of the Nashville women's movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Topics covered in the collection include articles and clipping on the national women's movement as well as other socio-political issues of the time period including southern history issues and the Vietnam War.
Long, Everett
Everett Long was a member of the Southern Students Organizing Committee. This collections consists primarily of newsletters and publications relating to women's rights, gay and lesbian rights, and civil rights.
Smith, Mary Anne Downey
A longtime social and political activist, Mary Anne Smith has
been active in a variety of different causes including nuclear weapons freeze
and multiple women's issues. Her collection includes posters, buttons and
pins, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and information packets and pamphlets.
Thrasher, Sue
Sue Thrasher began her activist career with civil rights campaigns
before moving into women's rights and unionism. Her papers relate to her work
in these fields, the bulk of which are from the 1970s.
Vanderbilt Aid Society
Founded in 1894 by wives of Vanderbilt University faculty members, the Vanderbilt Aid Society collected donations to financially assist students attending the university. This small collection of papers (1894-1971) includes the constitution and by-laws of the society, annual reports, financial records, and correspondence.
Vann, Elizabeth Denny
Elizabeth Denny Vann received her B.A. (1904) and M.A. (1905) degrees from Vanderbilt University. She achieved notice as a teacher; a leader in community, civic, governmental and church affairs; and for public service. She worked with the Belgian Relief Mission group in Palo Alto; the censorship office in New York City; the International Red Cross in Rio; and helped organize the Bergen County Women's Democratic Club in Leonia, New Jersey. During the 1930's, she headed the New Jersey Women's and Professional Division of the WPA. Her papers include correspondence; materials relating to West Side School, Wallace University School, and Vanderbilt University; materials relating to the WPA; diaries; and autobiographical notes.
Webb, Victoria
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/webbv.shtml
The photographs in this collection were taken by Victoria Webb, and donated to Vanderbilt University on July 4, 2002. They were taken as the result of her involvement with the women's liberation movement in Nashville, during the 1970s, and the publication titled, "Women's Free Express."
Werthen, Mary Jane
An alumna of Vanderbilt and the first woman to serve on the Vanderbilt Board of Trust, Mrs. Mary Jane (Lowenheim) Werthen received her B.A. in 1929 and her M.A. in 1935. She also served on the Alumni Board of Directors as well as a number of Nashville area educational and social welfare organizations. Her collection of papers includes newspaper clippings, programs and invitations to civic events, and photographs relating to her committee and Board of Trust activities.
Women at Vanderbilt
The Women at Vanderbilt Collection is comprised of the reading assignments and seminar papers prepared in the Fall of 1981 by students in History 295/2, a course in historiography taught by Professor Barbara Weinstein. The seminar papers are listed alphabetically by author following a folder containing assignments and selected readings.
Women's Organizations at Vanderbilt
Miscellaneous materials relating to the following women's organizations
at Vanderbilt: Nashville University Women's Council; Southeastern Women's
Studies Association; Staff Women's Association; Vanderbilt Professional Women;
Vanderbilt Women's Faculty Organization; Women's Center; and Women's Concerns
Exploration Group. Coverage for each organization varies but includes some
of the following: newsletters, by-laws, membership applications, meeting minutes,
surveys, and other material.
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