League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay Records
1929-1995
- League of Women Voters of Greater Green Bay (Wis.)
Green Bay Mss 101; Disc 179A
4.6 c.f. (7 archives boxes and 2 record center cartons) and 3 disc recordings
UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr.
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Records of a Green Bay area civic group primarily for women, involved in studying local community and political issues, influencing political decision-making, and encouraging voter participation. Included are general records such as minutes of board of directors meetings, monthly bulletins, by-laws and revisions, convention programs and minutes, correspondence, treasurer's reports, budgets, finance drive materials, the LWV fiftieth anniversary booklet and chapter history, membership handbooks and directories, reports to the state and national LWV, publications, and scrapbooks of newsclippings. Local study issues illustrate societal and political concerns of the Green Bay League, and include correspondence, notes, state and national position papers, clippings, reports, and other research material on the following topics: air pollution, Brown County library service, city-county budgets, county assessor, education, environmental quality issues, the Equal Rights Amendment, fair housing, foreign trade, hunger, I-43 and I-57 highways, juveniles, land use, local government, mass transit, public health, Brown County Sheriff's Department, reapportionment, school board election process, school budgets, solid waste, water quality, and welfare. The disc recordings are a 1950 radio program on the League, broadcast on WBAY, Green Bay, and a national LWV program “Congressional Strings on the Public Purse.”
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