Summary Information

Title: National Organization for Women. Kenosha Chapter: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1973-1987

Creator:

• National Organization for Women. Kenosha Chapter (Wis.)

Call Number: Parkside Mss 68; PH 3778; Tape 1194A; EA 58-59

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes), 7 tape recordings, 16 photographs, and 2 films (8mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Records of the Kenosha, Wisconsin chapter of the National Organization for Women consisting of newsletters, other local publications, and subject files on activities such as consciousness raising events, ERA Countdown, and a Mr. Equal Rights beauty pageant. On tape is a 1975 Institute of Women at Mount St. Mary College in Milwaukee and a speech to a Kenosha audience by Mary Jean Collins-Robson regarding discriminatory employment practices of the Sears company. Available on film and as black and white and color snapshots is visual documentation of the organization's male beauty pageant and participation in various Equal Rights Amendment rallies.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pks0068

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