Oregon Women's Political History Collection Processing Project

About This Grant

The several manuscript collections that together form the Oregon Women's Political History Collections constitute 284 linear feet of manuscript materials relating to women's political and activist work in Oregon in the latter half of the twentieth century. These collections contain correspondence, reports, photographs, financial papers, and publications and provide a window into the work of the women activists whose efforts focused on achieving equal human rights for all people in Oregon. Unprocessed, these collections are essentially hidden from researchers in Oregon and elsewhere that could benefit from access to these materials. The story of women's political work in Oregon in the mid-to-late twentieth century has not been fully told; these primary source documents, the sources necessary for the writing of history, are essential to that process. Staff will create and publish finding aids for access to this collection.