League of Women Voters (U.S.) records
Contributors: National American Woman Suffrage Association. League of Women Voters; National League of Women Voters (U.S.)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2221
Subjects: Land use; Child labor; Labor; League of Women Voters (U.S.). Education Fund; Federal government; Health; Emigration and immigration; ERAmerica (Organization); Poor; Race relations; Child welfare; Consumer protection; Civil rights; League of Women Voters (U.S.).; Civil service; Election law; Water quality; United Nations; Housing; Legal status, laws; Women; National security; Environmental protection; State governments; Suffrage; United States; International trade; Citizen participation; Women's rights; International relations; Voting; Inner cities; Patriotism; Equal rights amendments; Constitutional amendments; Public welfare; Education
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, proceedings, speeches, reports, project studies, subject files, biographical material, financial records, newspapers clippings, printed matter, and other records concerning the league's activities at the national, state, and local levels.  Documents the organization's lobbying efforts, national conventions and council meetings, and projects of the League of Women Voters Education Fund.  Topics include child labor and welfare, citizen participation in the inner cities, civil rights, civil service, consumer issues, education, election law, environment, ERAmerica and the Equal Rights Amendment, federal-state relations, health, housing, immigration, international relations and trade, labor, military spending, national security, patriotism, needs and rights of the poor, race relations, the suffrage movement, United Nations, voter education, water quality and related land use, welfare, and women's legal status and rights.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition produced by University Publications of America, Inc., available for selections from records at the League's national headquarters, Washington, D.C., and the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, no. 20,228.

Microfilm of originals in: League of Women Voters (U.S.) national headquarters and the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.).

League of Women Voters (U.S.) national headquarters and Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.

Gift and deposit later converted to gift, League of Women Voters (U.S.), 1933-1990.

Gift, Arthur and Elisabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, 1980-1984.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

National American Woman Suffrage Association formed in February 1919; in 1920 the association's section, League of Women Voters, became an independent organization under the name National League of Women Voters (later the League of Women Voters of the United States).

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room; published guide to the microfilm edition also available.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Microfilm described in catalog record 87-14773.