Women's Joint Congressional Committee

Format:

Book

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's Joint Congressional Committee.

Education.

Public welfare.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 manuscripts)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 1759-1960

Summary:

Correspondence, minutes, reports, information forms, membership lists, financial records, printed matter, and other papers relating to the Committee's work in monitoring and promoting legislation in the areas of education, social welfare, and women's rights. Subjects include civil rights, social security, women's and children's bureaus, maternity and infancy, a department of education, school lunch programs, anti-lynching legislation, and home rule for the District of Columbia. Member organizations represented include the National Consumers' League, National Education Association of the United States, and National Council of Jewish Women. Correspondents include Katharine M. Ansley, Helen W. Atwater, Mary T. Bannerman, Bessie S. Cone, Elizabeth Eastman, Eleanor M. Hadley, Florence Kelley, Margaret C. Maule, Claire Sifton, Florence V. Watkins, and Lenna Lowe Yost

Notes:

Date range: 1759-1960

Includes the following publications: Correspondence; Minutes of meetings and others

Reproduction of the originals from the Library of Congress

Local Notes:

Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product

OCLC:

1351523372

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license