11-19-1994 Women of Achievement and Herstory Memorabilia of the women's liberation movement from 1960-1976 is being sought by Rosalyn Baxandall (email: ROSYBAX@AOL.com) and Linda Gordon (ILGordon@mace.wisc.edu) for a multi-volume collection aimed for library use. RB is with the American Studies program, SUNY Old Westbury, and LG is with the history department, University of Wisconsin and thus have solid academic credentials. The collection, according to their letter to us, will include materials from the roots of the movement until 1976 and will focus on the decentralized, radical women's movements as opposed to national organizations like NOW...it will be published by Carlson in hardback volumes intended for libraries, although a paperback collection is probable. It is urgent to preserve and collect these materials and make them more available, not only to scholars but to activists and the general public. The duo is asking for two kinds of help. First, if you have any leaflets, posters, etc., from the movement you can make available to us (if you sent originals rather than xeroxes you can be confident that we will return them to you promptly. You will of course be credited and thanked in the book. They would appreciate suggestions of other former activists to whom we should write this request or archival collections that they may not know about. PLEASE help with this project - let's not have this vital part of women's herstory erased by the usual historical way of not preserving women's actions...spread the word to the feminist crones.... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- B. 11-19-1847, Mary Anna Hallock Foote, illustrated and wrote of life in several mining towns and California. Often regarded as a writer equal in descriptive ability to Bret Harte, she was required to "feminize" and "idealize" her writings which destroyed much of its effectiveness. B. 11-19-1895, Isabel McLennan McMeekin, author. Event 11-19-1903, Mary Morton Kehew, became president of the newly established Women's National Trade Union League that later is renamed the National Women's Trade Union League. B. 11-19-1917, Indira Gandhi, prime minster of India, 1966-77 and 1980- 84. Had instituted a vigorous series of reforms including birth control which were violently opposed by religious forces. She was assassinated by a religiously fanatic member of her own security guard. Her last years were tinged with scandal. B. 11-19-1926, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, brilliant political scientist and US official. B. 11-19-1962, Jodie Foster, film actor, director, multi-Academy Award winner for her performances in _Cry of the Lambs_ and _Accused_. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (C) 1994 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR 71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there weren't notable and effective women throughout history. They were always there, but historians failed to note them in our histories so that each generation of women has had to reinvent themselves.