Struggle for Women’s Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990

Struggle for Women’s Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990

This collection holds three records of important women’s rights organizations, the National Woman’s Party (NWP), the League of Women Voters and the Women’s Action Alliance. The NWP is vital in the American women’s fight for suffrage and later supported the Equal Rights Amendment  (ERA). The NWP grew out of a committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, but separated from the organization in 1913 over difference in strategy and tactics, as the NWP employed a more confrontational and militant approach to politics. The NWP collection contains detailed correspondence and documentation of its voting rights efforts from 1913-1920. The Women’s Action Alliance, founded as a grassroots organization in 1971, focused on women’s employment and employment discrimination, childcare, health care, and education. The documents in The League of Women Voters collection span nearly every facet of women’s involvement in U.S. politics from 1920 to 1974.

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