Object number:
H97.23.32
Object name:
report
Title:
Report of Women's Coallition Meeting, Sept 27, 1969
Date made:
September 27, 1969
Material / Technique:
paper ~ white | printed ~ black | hole | staple
Dimensions:
H: 14 in, W: 8.5 in
Credit line:
Gift of Diana Thatcher
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
6 pages on legal size white paper printed on both sides with black ink, each page punched with 4-hole punches, stapled together at top left corner
Content description:
Report of WOMEN'S COALITION MEETING, September 27, 1969, held at Glide Memorial Church, 330 Ellis Street, San Francisco. Purpose "to attempt to develop an action coalition of women's groups which could coordinate efforts to achieve specific agreed upon goals:" Lists the many organizations present including: National and information about each organization. Organization for Women, Women's Liberation, Woman Power, Women, Inc., Woman's Caucus of the Berkeley Sociology Association, Women's City Club, Women for Peace, National Negro Business and Professional Women, Daughters of Bilitis, Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Soroptimist Club of San Francisco, Society for Humane Abortions, California Institute of the Arts, Young Socialists Alliance, Negro Historical and Cultural Society, Student Mobilization Committee, Mexican-American Political Association, California Committee to Legalize Abortions, American Association of University Women, Business and Professional Women, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Socialist Workers Party. Issues addressed at the meeting included: Education, Self-Image, Child Care, Politics, Job Discrimination and Future Coalition Meetings. Topics the group wanted to deal with at other meetings included ecology, tax problems and inflation.
Concepts:
discrimination; abortion rights; birth control; Women's Liberation Movement; Equal Rights Amendment; women of color; Constitutional Amendment; lesbian/feminist; child care
Places:
Glide Memorial Church; San Francisco
Organizations:
Bay Area Chapter National Organization for Women; Womanpower; National Negro Business and Professional Women; National Organization for Women; Young Socialists Alliance; Daughters of Bilitis; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
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