Activism and Social
Reform Special Collections
City University of
New York
The Activist Women's Voices Oral History Project and Archive
was a project committed to documenting the voices of unheralded activist women
in community-based organizations in New York City.
Activist Women’s Voices Oral
History Project
Georgia State
University Library
Various collections of materials documenting the history of
activism at Georgia State University.
AJCP179-13a Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Photographic Archives.
Special Collections and Archives, Georgia
State University Library.
Los Angeles History and Culture in Library Special
Collections
UCLA Library
UCLA Library Special Collections’ holdings include the
papers of many organizations involved in social change, as well as the papers
of a number of individual activists.
M.E. Grenander Department
of Special Collections and Archives
University at Albany
– State University of New York
Numerous collections related to New York activists and
activist organizations. Records include materials from NAACP, New York Civil
Liberties Union (NYCLU), and Citizens’ Environmental Coalition.
Michigan State
University (radicalism and student activism)
The Radicalism Collection includes books, pamphlets,
periodicals, posters, and ephemera covering a wide range of viewpoints on
political, social, economic, and cultural issues and movements in the United
States and throughout the world.
Bread and Roses:
The Story of the Rise of the Shirtworkers,
Two Eventful Years, 1933-1934
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (New York, 1935?)
The Story of the Rise of the Shirtworkers,
Two Eventful Years, 1933-1934
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (New York, 1935?)
UMass Amherst
Libraries
Emphasizing the cross-fertilization between social movements
and centers of activist energy, SCUA collects materials from individuals and
organizations involved in the struggles for peace and non-violence, social and
racial justice, economic justice, agricultural reform, environmentalism,
sustainability, alternative energy, organized labor, gay rights, disability
rights, spiritual activism, antinuclear activism, and intentional communities.
University at Buffalo
– State University of New York (social activism, environmental issues,
racial issues, women’s history)
The State University of New York at Buffalo special
collections include collections related to campus unrest and social activism,
environmental issues in New York, racial issues in New York, and women’s
history.
University of
Illinois at Chicago University Library
The Midwest Women's Historical Collection (MWHC) documents
the history of women and women's issues throughout the Midwest in the 19th and
20th centuries. The MWHC consists of over 100 distinct manuscript collections.
It contains the personal papers of individual women and organizational records
of women's groups. The collection is particularly strong in the area of social
reform, women's political activism, women's professional organizations,
education and politics.
University of
Minnesota Libraries
The Social Welfare
History Archives collects the records of private-sector social service
and social reform organizations and the personal papers of individual leaders
in the field.
University of Washington
Libraries
Highlights of the GLBTQ archival collections at University
of Washington Libraries include Northwest Lesbian and Gay History Museum
Project oral histories, the LGBT Northwest serials and related ephemera
collection, and the Pride Foundation Ephemera Collection.
Women and Social
Movements, Intl.
Wide variety of collections concerning women’s rights,
women’s history, and social issues.
York University
Libraries (Canada)
Materials relating to women’s involvement as activists in
social reform and its history, at various local, national and international
levels.
