Summary Information

Title: Gene Boyer Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1925-2002

Creator:

• Boyer, Gene, 1925-2003

Call Number: M2004-229; Audio 1625A

Quantity: 28.9 cubic feet (27 records center cartons, 3 archives boxes, 5 card boxes, and 1 oversize folder), 279 photographs, 370 transparencies, 9 videorecordings, 72 tape recordings, and 1 disc recording

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 Gene Cohen Boyer, documenting her participation in the development of political and economic feminism at the local, state, and national levels. A leader in the women’s movement since the 1960s, she was a founder and first treasurer of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and later president of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. She was also a founder of the National Women’s Conference Committee and the Jewish Women’s Coalition, and president of the National Women’s Conference Center (NWCC). The papers document her many activities and interests, and include biographical materials, correspondence, subject files, speeches, and writings. Also included are photographs, transparencies, and sound recordings of meetings and conferences of various organizations.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to and use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

This collection has been assigned Mss 1105.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01105

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