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The Resource League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records

League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records

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Summary
The collection contains clippings and alphabetically arranged office files maintained by the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia to document its activities. Topics in the records cover primarily local D.C. political issues, but also national and international concerns of the National League of Women Voters. The records are divided into two series: topical files and clippings
Language
  • eng
  • eng
Work
Extent
  • 22.5
  • 31
Note
Collection title devised by cataloger
Link
https://thepeoplesarchive.dclibrary.org/repositories/2/resources/972
Instance
Label
League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records, 1930-1982
Title
League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records
Inclusive dates
1930-1982
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Language
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
The collection contains clippings and alphabetically arranged office files maintained by the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia to document its activities. Topics in the records cover primarily local D.C. political issues, but also national and international concerns of the National League of Women Voters. The records are divided into two series: topical files and clippings
Biographical or historical data
As a result of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote, the National League of Women Voters (NLWV) was established to educate women on how to vote and to provide information on public issues. On May 26, 1921, a meeting was called in the home of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot to form a District of Columbia branch of the National League of Women Voters. League charter members included Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. Grace Chamberlain, Judge Mary O'Toole, Miss Harleen James, and Mrs. Elizabeth Brownlow. Famous members of the League have included First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. A.J. McKelway, wife of Benjamin McElway, who became editor of the Washington Evening Star in 1947. In 1926, the League adopted the name, "The Voteless District of Columbia League of Women Voters, " to emphasize the District's disenfranchisement. Since its inception, the League's primary focus has been to educate and lobby for greater self-government for the citizens of the District. The D.C. League has worked on a variety of issues important to the District as well as national and international issues supported by the NWLV. During the 1930s and 1940s, the League conducted studies regarding public assistance relief and child welfare in the District, supported home front mobilization efforts during World War II, D.C. government reorganization, juvenile court changes, child labor laws, the 40-hour work week, and improvement of D.C. schools. Starting in the 1940s, the League began working for better race relations and supporting civil rights in the Nation's capital. The League supported desegregating District schools, and anti-discrimination laws in federal government employment and housing. In the 1950s and 1960s the League focused much of its attention on D.C. suffrage and home rule. By the 1980s, the League had positions on a number of public policy issues such as support of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs), a rapid rail system, urban planning, Equal Rights Amendment ratification, and gun control laws with qualified support for the University of the District of Columbia and statehood for the District. The League prints a Voters Guide each election, sponsors a speakers bureau, conducts political debates, and advocates for a number of public policy issues for all D.C. citizens.
Cataloging source
DWP
Language note
English
Location of other archival material
Internal Collection 001: Julius Hobson Papers (1960-1977) Collection 009: Harry S. Wender Papers (1930-1973) Collection 048: District of Columbia Statehood Commission Records (1788-1994) Collection 055: Home Rule Committee Collection (1939-1961) Collection 089: Martha McNeil Hamilton Collection (1971-1997) External DC History Center: E1670, League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Ephemera Collection George Washington University, Special Collections Research Center: MS 2326, Helen Halbig Papers
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  • Home rule
  • Civil rights
  • Gentrification
  • Statehood (American politics)
  • Suffrage
  • Urban renewal
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Women
  • Women
Label
League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records
Link
https://thepeoplesarchive.dclibrary.org/repositories/2/resources/972
Instantiates
Note
Collection title devised by cataloger
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1240366133
Extent
  • 22.5
  • 31
Governing access note
To view collection, call (202)727-1213, e-mail peoples.archive@dc.gov, or see more information here: dclibrary.org/thepeoplesarchive/appointments
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Ownership
The Library received its first donation of records from the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia in 1981 from Sue Panzer, President of the League. Subsequent donations have been received periodically from League members.
Type of unit
  • Linear feet
  • Boxes
Label
League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia Records
Link
https://thepeoplesarchive.dclibrary.org/repositories/2/resources/972
Note
Collection title devised by cataloger
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
on1240366133
Extent
  • 22.5
  • 31
Governing access note
To view collection, call (202)727-1213, e-mail peoples.archive@dc.gov, or see more information here: dclibrary.org/thepeoplesarchive/appointments
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Ownership
The Library received its first donation of records from the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia in 1981 from Sue Panzer, President of the League. Subsequent donations have been received periodically from League members.
Type of unit
  • Linear feet
  • Boxes

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