A Collection in the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Collection Number 98N75
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Special Collections Earl Gregg Swem Library College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8794 USA Phone: (757) 221-3090 Fax: (757) 221-5440 Email: spcoll@wm.edu URL: http://swem.wm.edu/scrc/
Includes many letters, newspaper clippings, and feminist related items of Zelda Nordlinger, a Richmond, VA woman's activist
and state co-coordinator of the Virginia chapter of the National Organization for
Women. Includes information on the origins of the National Organization for Women, as well as the Equal Rights Amendment and
the abortion issue. Also contains several newsletters published by feminist
organizations, pamphlets, photographs, and correspondence with other feminist activists in the state.
Letters written by Zelda Nordlinger
13 March 1971-19 February 1972
15 items
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Letters, a journal on feminism, and an autobiographical essay written by Zelda Nordlinger. Also includes a copy of the First
Richmond Women's Equality Award presented to Zelda Nordlinger.
15 March 1972-13 July 1998
23 items
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Letters, mostly written to Zelda Nordlinger, from political candidates, politicians, and fellow feminists.
3 [November] [19]69-19 April 1970
14 items
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Letters, mostly written to Zelda Nordlinger, from women's activists Holt Carlton and Flora Crater, as well as letters from
Gurney W. Grant (manager of a Tea Room in Richmond), United States senators,
and others.
9 December 1970-21 [March] [19]71
15 items
Box-folder 1:5
Letters, mostly written to Zelda Nordlinger, from United States senators, Director of Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation
Constance Burgess, and others. Includes one letter from Betty Friedan.
6 April 1971-20 August 1971
18 items
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Letters, mostly written to Zelda Nordlinger, from fellow feminists, including political candidate Jane Chittom. Contains many
letters of thanks for presentations made by Zelda Nordlinger to such groups
as the Fort Lee Officers' Wives Club. Includes an address to the men's Focus Club in Richmond by Holt Carlton.
3 September 1971-18 November 1971
14 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from the ACLU, United States senators, Associate Editor Overton Jones of the Richmond
Times-Dispatch,
fellow feminist activists Holt Carlton and Christine Faia, and others.
3 December 1971-27 Feb[ruary] 1972
11 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from United States senators, political candidates, WWBT TV-12 Broadcasting Company of
Virginia,
Time
Magazine, and feminist activists. Includes an invitation to an event honoring congresswoman Bella Abzug.
4 March 1972-28 Apr[il] [19]72
18 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from feminist activists including Eleanor Lawrence, Holt Carlton, Genevieve "Genx" Brothers,
Meg Williams, and Margaret Talburt, as well as United States senators,
and others.
4 May [1972]-30 June 1972
13 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from feminist activists including Meg Williams, Eleanor Lawrence, Christine Faia, and
Genx Brothers, as well as United States senators, the ACLU, the publisher of
Women Today,
and others.
2 July 1972-27 Sep[tember] 1972
16 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from feminist activists Holt Carlton, Flora Crater, and Margaret Weatherby, as well as
politicians, political candidates, and others.
3 October 1972-9 April 1973
15 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from the Commission on the Status of Women, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Henry Howell,
the ACLU, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as United
States senators, and others.
12 May 1973-15 December 1973
15 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from Eileen Freiss of the First Women's Bank, the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation,
Women's Lobby of Virginia, the Prisoner's Solidarity Committee,
political candidates, feminist activists, and others.
24 January 1974-5 January 1975
13 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from the Richmond
Times-Dispatch
, WTVR radio station, congresswoman Bella Abzug, Richmond Organized Against Rape, the Women's Campaign Fund, United States
senators, and feminist activists.
19 March 1975-12 June 1976
15 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from feminist Flora Crater, Church Women United in Virginia, political candidates, United
States senators, and others. Also includes two anonymous letters condemning
Zelda Nordlinger for her pro-choice stance on the abortion issue.
6 July 1976-14 July 1998
14 items
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Letters, mostly to Zelda Nordlinger, from the Feminist Press, the Richmond News Leader, feminist activist Eleanor Lawrence,
and others.
n.d.
10 items
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Letters pertaining to the formation of the Richmond chapter of the National Organization for Women. Includes a copy of the
Virginia NOW by-laws, a NOW statement of purpose, a summary of the women's
movement's early years in Richmond, and other information concerning Virginia NOW's origins.
23 November 1970-September 1973
17 items
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Letters and press releases of the National Organization for Women
25 Feb[ruary] [19]71-7 September 1971
15 items
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Letters and press releases of the National Organization for Women
September 1971-20 February 1973
15 items
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Letters and press releases of the National Organization for Women
Feb[ruary] 1973-22 [April 1977]
15 items
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Newsletters of various chapters of the National Organization for Women
September 1970-December 1974
15 items
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Newsletters of various chapters of the National Organization for Women
February 1975-May 1998
13 items
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Miscellaneous items pertaining to the National Organization for Women, particularly the Richmond chapter.
17 [February 1971]-1998
22 items
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Copies of
The Woman Activist,
a bulletin for women's rights, edited by Flora Crater.
15 July 1971-June 1998
9 items
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Newsletters, journals and memos of the Women's Equity Action League and Women's Lobby, Inc.
May 1972-3 February 1975
7 items
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Letters, mostly written by Flora Crater, Coordinator of the Virginia Women's Political Caucus, as well as press releases,
reports, meeting minutes and newsletters of the Virginia Women's Political
Caucus.
2 January 1971-October 1975
18 items
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Letters, newsletters, reports of the National Women's Political Caucus
15 July 1971-February 1976
12 items
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Congressional records, reports of the Commission on the Status of Women, resolutions of the Congress of Women's Organizations
in Virginia, and other documents pertaining to the status of women.
10 March 1971-1983
10 items
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Papers pertaining to the Equal Rights Amendment. Includes many letters from United States senators and reports of the Citizens'
Advisory Council.
27 August 1970-16 March 1972
20 items
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Papers pertaining to the Equal Rights Amendment. Includes letters, fliers, etc.
24 March 1972-8 November 1973
20 items
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Papers pertaining to the Equal Rights Amendment. Includes reports of the Virginia ERA Ratification Council, letters, brochures,
etc.
2 December 1974-December 1995
22 items
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Papers pertaining to the abortion issue and family planning. Includes Planned Parenthood-World Population Memos, abortion
fact sheets, etc.
May 1967-15 January 1976
20 items
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Newspaper clippings
26 October 1969-23 March 1972
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
24 March 1972-28 December 1972
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
3 January 1973-24 August 1973
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
24 August 1973-29 March 1974
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
2 May 1974-6 March 1975
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
30 March 1975-18 July 1975
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
21 July 1975-14 November 1975
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
30 November 1975-21 March 1976
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
21 1976-19 August 1976
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
19 August 1976-8 January 1977
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
11 January 1977-4 May 1977
31 items
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Newspaper clippings
23 May 1977-19 August 1982
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
September 1982-23 July 1983
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
28 July 1983-11 November 1983
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
11 November 1983-13 January 1985
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
5 May 1985-18 May 1990
30 items
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Newspaper clippings
n.d.
35 items
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Newspaper clippings
n.d.
37 items
Box-folder 3:19
"The Right to Abortion: A Psychiatric View," published by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
October 1969
1 item
Box-folder 3:20
Newspapers
3 March 1971-December 1972
3 items
Box-folder 3:21
Newspapers
14 November 1973-November 1975
4 items
Box-folder 3:22
Newspapers
30 August 1976-13 January 1980
3 items
Box-folder 3:23
The Plain Truth, A Magazine of Understanding
September 1981
1 item
Box-folder 3:24
Newspapers
14 April 1983-15 October 1983
3 items
Box-folder 3:25
Newspapers
20 October 1985-1998
4 items
Box-folder 3:26
Time
Magazine
29 June 1998
1 item
Box-folder 3:27
Miscellaneous
29 items
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Miscellaneous
31 items
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Miscellaneous
28 items
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Pamphlets, including those distributed by National Organization for Women, Women's Campaign Fund, American Civil Liberties
Union, Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, and others.
n.d.
25 items
Box-folder 3:31
Photographs
n.d.
17 items
P1. Bradford, Lynn
P2. Bradford, Lynn and women--unidentified
P3. Bradford, Lynn and Gretchen Roberts, Carla Bradshaw
P4. Carlton, Mary Holt
P5. Carlton, Mary Holt
P6. Lawrence, Eleanor
P7. Nordlinger, Zelda
P8. Nordlinger, Zelda and Debbie Markel, Juanita White
P9. Nordlinger, Zelda and Michele Hensley, Betty Meridith, Hope Montoni
P10. Nordlinger, Zelda and Mary Holt Carlton
P11. Nordlinger, Zelda and women--unidentified
P12. Roberts, Gretchen
P13. National Organization for Women Conference--Philadelphia