Title: Rayna Rapp Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1977-1986

Creator:

• Rapp, Rayna

Call Number: M92-318

Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (1 record center carton and 3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Rayna Rapp, leader of the now defunct reproductive freedom organization CARASA (Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse). The majority of the files are records of the organization and consist of subject files, research committee files and project files for the Trade Union Project (known as “Women’s Rights in the Workplace and the Home”) an educational outreach program funded by the New York Council on the Humanities. The materials document Rapp’s leadership in CARASA and the organization’s focus on intersectional feminist activism.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m92318

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Included are project grant materials, correspondence, conference materials, issue and background information related to CARASA’s mission, book revisions for “Women Under Attack,” copies of CARASA News, and speeches given by Rapp. There is also a transcript of an interview with Rapp conducted by Karen Lamoree of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin staff in 1992 at the time the papers were deposited.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Rayna Rapp, New York. Accession Number: M92-318

M92-318
Box   1	CARASA News, 1978-1982
	Subject files
Box   1	New York University educational talk, outline and notes
Box   1	Fact-sheets, flyers and letters to members
Box   1	Meetings
Box   1	Reproductive Rights National Network
Box   1	Teen pregnancy
Box   1	Issue research
Box   1	Feminism and abortion discussion group materials
Box   1	Family Protection Act
Box   1	Sterilization abuse
	Research Committee
Box   1	Research proposals
Box   1	Women Under Attack, “The Social Context”
Box   1	Women Under Attack revisions
Box   1	New research
Box   1	Meeting notes and background materials
	Trade union educational project
	New York Council for the Humanities grant
Box   1	Proposal
Box   1	Prospectus
Box   1	Planning
Box   1	Correspondence
Box   1	Final report
Box   1	Reports and finances
Box   1	Forums with workshops and speakers
	Women's Rights in the Workplace and at Home
Box   1	Background
Box   1	Conference
Box   1	Evaluation and reports
Box   1	Consumer rights
Box   1	Strategies for Survival: Womanomics vs. Reaganomics conference
Box   1	Materials in Chinese
Box   1	Threads: The Humanities Project of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers
Box   2	Coalition of Labor Union Women
	Double Exposure: Women's Health at Home and on the Job conference
Box   2	Planning
Box   2	Handouts
Box   2	Women's Committee Local 1199 evaluations
Box   2	Conference proposal correspondence
Box   2	Mailing lists
Box   2	Women's Rights at Work and Home, American Federation of Government Employees conference
Box   2	Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Box   2	Facilitator training
Box   2	Child care
Box   2	American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, DC 37, conference materials
Box   2	Women's health
Box   2	Conference overviews and advertising
	International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Box   2	Conference
Box   3	Planning
Box   3	Handouts
Box   3	Correspondence
Box   3	Long Island women's services directory
Box   3	Program descriptions
Box   3	Interview (transcript) with Rayna Rapp, 1992
Box   3	Government Policy and Your Family: Coping with the '80s conference, seminar materials, notes on planning, and correspondence
Box   3	Working women publications and resources
Box   3	Individual contacts and suggestions for conference planning
Box   3	A Survival Course for the '80s and Beyond: Women at Work and at Home, planning notes and correspondence
Box   4	CARASA rolodex