Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Feminism

In Honor of Women's History Month: The Things We Carried

March 14, 2013
Feminism
Suffrage
Women's History
Manuscript Collections

In the course of the past 150 years, women’s efforts in behalf of social justice (including suffrage, equal rights, fair labor laws, peace, and civil rights for African Americans and gays and lesbians) have been well documented in diaries, speeches, correspondence, and meeting minutes—some passionate and intimate, others written for a public audience. But what happens to those ephemeral pieces left behind in dresser drawers or rolled up at the back of a closet, forgotten once the march was over or the election won? 

Catharine Stimpson, Barbara Deming, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Orenstein at The Woman's Salon, May 8, 1976. Copyright: Estate of Freda LeinwandCatharine Stimpson, Barbara Deming, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Orenstein at The Woman's Salon, May 8, 1976. Copyright: Estate of Freda Leinwand

Freda Leinwand

February 25, 2013
Feminism
Photography

The Schlesinger Library recently acquired the Freda Leinwand Papers and photographs collection, consistenting of over 36,000 image many of which document the activities of the Women's Movement in New York City.

June Jordan Promotional Photo. 1969. June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe InstituteJune Jordan Promotional Photo. 1969. June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute

June Jordan: Poet of the People

January 10, 2013
Audiovisual Collections
Feminism
LGBTQ
Audio-visual Collections

The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute is proud to serve as the repository of the manuscript and audiovisual collections of the award-winning author, poet, and social and political activist June Jordan.