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Women for Peace (Chicago, Ill.) records

Descriptive Summary

Title
Women for Peace (Chicago, Ill.) records
Dates
1961-1988
Creator
Women for Peace (Chicago, Ill.)
Creator
Lens, Shirley , Women Strike for Peace
Size
9.5 linear ft. (12 boxes)
Size
1 v.
Size
1 sound cassette.
Size
1 video recording.
Language
Material is in English unless otherwise noted.

Scope and Content

Correspondence, brochures, fliers, press releases, newsletters, reports, financial materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records of Women for Peace, the Chicago chapter of the national organization: Women Strike for Peace. Includes materials related to activities and interests of the Chicago chapter and the national organization, as well as other local and national anti-war, activist groups. Also present are copies of Bulletin, the Chicago chapter's monthly newsletter, and a scrapbook containing photographs and newspaper clippings documenting activities of Women for Peace. Much of the material was collected by Shirley Lens, an active member of Women for Peace.

Scope and Content

The collection includes a sound cassette tape of Barbara Timm dated October 16, 1980; and a VHS tape of the 1985 Geneva Mock Summit.

Conditions for Access

For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).

Conditions Governing Use

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Preferred Citation

A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.

Acquisition Information

Accession information not specified.

Biography or History

Women for Peace (Chicago, Ill.) was a local chapter of Women Strike for Peace (also known as Women's International Strike for Peace), a national organization founded in 1961 by Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson. The Chicago chapter was base originally in the Hyde Park neighborhood and later relocated to 343 South Dearborn Street.

Related Material

Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Shirley Lens papers (M1985.0006) and some Bulletins of the organization cataloged separately.

Descriptive inventory available online.

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