Processed by
Kristen R. Sanders
28 June 2000
Revised 14 November 2001
Updated 9 March 2004
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
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VOLUME OF |
12 boxes |
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COLLECTION |
Ca. 1974–1996 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Marian K. Towne, 5129 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, IN. 46208 |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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COPYRIGHT: |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ALTERNATE |
None |
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RELATED |
Celebrating the Journey: the Diamond Anniversary of Fairview Presbyterian Church, 1924–1999 (BX 9211.I55 F347 1999); Dreaming the Impossible Dream: the First Thirty Years of the Edyvean Repertory Theatre at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana (PW 2049.T63 1996);A Midwest Gardener’s Cookbook (TX 801.T69 1996);The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana (BP 605.P46T73 1995); That All May Be One: Centennial History of Church Women United in Indianapolis, 1898–1998 (BV 4420.T63 1998); Church Women United in Indiana, Records, 1916–1998 (M 0738); Church Women United in Indiana, Records, 1933–1988 (M 0547); League of Women Voters of Indiana, Records (M 0612) |
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ACCESSION |
1999.0308 |
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NOTES: |
None |
Marian Kleinsasser Towne was born on 24 July 1933, in Freeman, South Dakota. She married Dr. Edgar A. Towne, who later served as a professor at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis. The Townes have four children and eight grandchildren.
Marian Towne is a graduate of Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, where she received her B.A. in English and speech in 1955. In 1958 she graduated from the University of Chicago, with an M.A. in English and literature. Towne then received a second M.A. in 1978 from the Christian Theological Seminary, with a specialization in communication.
For most of her professional career, Towne worked in the field of education. From 1955 to 1957 she worked for Moundridge High School in Moundridge, Kansas. In 1958 Towne took a position as a part-time instructor in English at Roosevelt University in Chicago, where she worked as an instructor until 1962. Towne’s next position brought her to Findlay College in Findlay, Ohio, where she worked as a part-time instructor in English from 1962 to 1968 and as an assistant professor of English from 1968 to 1970. After a hiatus from her career to pursue other academic interests, she became a part-time instructor at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis. She taught speech communication there from 1984–94. She also did consulting for the Center for Church and Community Ministries, McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, from 1992–1994.
Marian Towne has served in a number of civic roles in the Indianapolis community. . She has been a member of the Fairview Presbyterian Church, located in Indianapolis, since 1975. She has served as a member and moderator of the Board of Deacons, and is an ordained elder, a member of sessions, chair of the Mission Committee, and as a member of the choir. Towne is also affiliated with Presbyterian Women as a member of the Board of Fairview Women and a member of the Board for Women of Presbytery of Whitewater Valley.
Towne has also been very involved with the Church Women United. She is currently president of the Indianapolis unit. She also formerly served as vice president for Ecumenical Action, CWU in Indiana; as a member of the Common Council (Board), national CWU; and as a member of the Communication Committee.
Currently Towne is a member of the League of Women Voters and serves on the board for the Indianapolis unit. As a member of this organization Towne has compiled and edited Indianapolis and Marion County Directory of Government Officials.
Other organizations Towne has been involved with include:
Marian Towne has also been an active participant in politics. In 1986 she was the Democratic candidate for Indiana State representative in District #49. Towne has also worked for health care reform, especially in the period from approximately 1987 to 1996.
Other interests of Marian Towne include writing. As an author Towne has written and published five titles. They are as follows:
Sources:
Information in the collection.
This collection contains a variety of materials assembled by Marian K. Towne, many of them relating to women's issues. There are three series.
Series one deals with Towne’s campaign for District #49 of the Indiana House of Representatives for in 1986. The series contains materials collected to help Towne address the concerns of constituents in the district. There is some correspondence dealing with fundraising and Towne’s speeches and notes from the campaign. Materials have been arranged in alphabetical order by topic.
Series two is concerned with Towne’s involvement in the campaign for health care reform within the state of Indiana from ca. 1987 to ca. 1996. This series is also arranged alphabetically by topic. The materials represented in this series are primarily articles and publications collected by Towne on Health Care
Series three deals with women’s issues in Indiana and in the nation as a whole. It includes pamphlets, articles, and other publications gathered from a number of different sources. Arrangement is alphabetical by topic.
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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Abortion (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 1 |
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Adult Protective Services (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 2 |
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Agriculture (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 3 |
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Association for Retarded Citizens of Indiana |
Box 1, Folder 4 |
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Campaign Correspondence for State Representative |
Box 1, Folder 5 |
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Campaign (1986) Speeches and Notes |
Box 1, Folder 6 |
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Child Care (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 7 |
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Children’s Health (1986 Campaign) (1 of 2) |
Box 1, Folder 8 |
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Children’s Health (2 of 2) |
Box 1, Folder 9 |
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Church and State (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 10 |
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Corrections (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 11 |
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Economic Development (1986 Campaign) |
Box 1, Folder 12 |
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Education (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 1 |
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Election Laws (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 2 |
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Environment- Acid Rain (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 3 |
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Family Stability (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 4 |
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Food and Health (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 5 |
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Fundraising Letters (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 6 |
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Guest Lists from Campaign Fundraisers (1986) |
Box 2, Folder 7 |
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Home Health Care (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 8 |
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Homelessness (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 9 |
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Indiana Civil Liberties Union Bill of Rights Lobby (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 10 |
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Insurance (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 11 |
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Legalized Gambling (1986 Campaign) (1 of 2) |
Box 2, Folder 12 |
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Legalized Gambling (2 of 2) |
Box 2, Folder 13 |
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Libraries (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 14 |
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Literacy (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 15 |
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Lobbyists (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 16 |
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Mailing Lists (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 17 |
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Mental Health (1986 Campaign) |
Box 2, Folder 18 |
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On Closer Examination: A Fact Book on a State Lottery and Other Forms of Legalized Gambling (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 1 |
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Position Papers (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 2 |
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Public Assistance (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 3 |
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Social Work Certification (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 4 |
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State Employees (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 5 |
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Taxes (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 6 |
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Uniform Marital Property Act (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 7 |
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Unions (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 8 |
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Utilities (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 9 |
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Volunteers (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 10 |
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Welfare Reform (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 11 |
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Youth Training (1986 Campaign) |
Box 3, Folder 12 |
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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Health Care Reform Campaign (ca.1987–96) (1 of 2) |
Box 3, Folder 13 |
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Health Care Reform Campaign (2 of 2) |
Box 3, Folder 14 |
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Health Care Reform: A Balanced Diagnosis |
Box 3, Folder 15 |
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Health Care Reform- Indiana Campaign |
Box 4, Folder 1 |
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Indiana Council of Churches Health Care Conferences 1991 (1 of 2) |
Box 4, Folder 2 |
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Indiana Council of Churches Health Care Conferences 1991 (2 of 2) |
Box 4, Folder 3 |
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Medical Ethics (1 of 2) |
Box 4, Folder 4 |
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Medical Ethics (2 of 2) |
Box 4, Folder 5 |
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A Monograph on Health Expenditures in Indiana 1982–1996 |
Box 4, Folder 6 |
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Religious Leaders Conference on Health Care 28 February 1994, Washington D.C. |
Box 4, Folder 7 |
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Report to the Indiana Council of Churches Board 13 September 1991 |
Box 4, Folder 8 |
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Universal Access to Health Care Advocacy Packet, United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society |
Box 5, Folder 1 |
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1991 Women and the Legislative Process: Women and Health Policy 16 November 1991 |
Box 5, Folder 2 |
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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Abortion |
Box 5, Folder 3 |
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Agriculture |
Box 5, Folder 4 |
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All the Live Long Day: Women and Work |
Box 5, Folder 5 |
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Athletics |
Box 5, Folder 6 |
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Aging/ Age Discrimination |
Box 5, Folder 7 |
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Alcoholism |
Box 5, Folder 8 |
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Bread for the World |
Box 5, Folder 9 |
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Brethren Life and Thought |
Box 5, Folder 10 |
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The Church Woman- Church Women United Summer 1988 and Winter 1990 |
Box 5, Folder 11 |
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Concern (magazine) |
Box 5, Folder 12 |
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A Call For Citizen Action: Crime Prevention and the Citizen |
Box 6, Folder 1 |
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Center for Women and Religion of the Graduate Theological Union |
Box 6, Folder 2 |
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Charity-Community Outreach |
Box 6, Folder 3 |
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“Christian Faith and Economic Justice” |
Box 6, Folder 4 |
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Church Women United- Women’s “Process” Exercises, Skits, and Warm-ups |
Box 6, Folder 5 |
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Crime |
Box 6, Folder 6 |
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Criminal Justice Issues Vol. 6 No. 2 June 1981 |
Box 6, Folder 7 |
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Criminal Justice-Miscellaneous |
Box 6, Folder 8 |
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Death Penalty |
Box 6, Folder 9 |
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Doing Peacemaking: Implementing the Commitment to Peacemaking in Your Congregation 2nd ed. |
Box 6, Folder 10 |
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Economic Justice (1 of 4) |
Box 6, Folder 11 |
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Economic Justice (2 of 4) |
Box 6, Folder 12 |
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Economic Justice (3 of 4) |
Box 6, Folder 13 |
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Economic Justice (4 of 4) |
Box 6, Folder 14 |
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Economic Justice- “Evangelism and the Poor” |
Box 6, Folder 15 |
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Economic Justice- “Inequality of Sacrifice: The Impact of the Reagan Budget on Women |
Box 6, Folder 16 |
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Economic Justice- “Women, Faith and Economic Justice” |
Box 6, Folder 17 |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
Box 7, Folder 1 |
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Ethnic Groups and the Presbyterian Church |
Box 7, Folder 2 |
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Family Concerns |
Box 7, Folder 3 |
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Feminism and Religion (1 of 6) |
Box 7, Folder 4 |
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Feminism and Religion (2 of 6) |
Box 7, Folder 5 |
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Feminism and Religion (3 of 6) |
Box 7, Folder 6 |
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Feminism and Religion (4 of 6) |
Box 7, Folder 7 |
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Feminism and Religion (5 of 6) |
Box 7, Folder 8 |
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Feminism and Religion (6 of 6) |
Box 7, Folder 9 |
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1985 Directory of Fairview Presbyterian Church, 4609 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, Indiana |
Box 8, Folder 1 |
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Food and Gleaner’s Food Bank |
Box 8, Folder 2 |
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Food Continued and Hunger Task Force |
Box 8, Folder 3 |
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Give Us This Day |
Box 8, Folder 4 |
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Granby, Co., Conference on Women’s Advocacy 8–10 August 1986 |
Box 8, Folder 5 |
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Girls, INC. |
Box 8, Folder 6 |
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Graduate Woman Vol. 79, No. 1 (January 1985) and Vol. 79, No. 6 (June 1985) |
Box 8, Folder 7 |
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Graduate Woman Vol. 80, No. 8 (1986), Vol. 81, No’s 1 and 3, (1987) and Vol. 82, No. 2 (1988) |
Box 8, Folder 8 |
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Home Care |
Box 8, Folder 9 |
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Hunger (1 of 3) |
Box 8, Folder 10 |
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Hunger (2 of 3) |
Box 8, Folder 11 |
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Hunger (3 of 3) |
Box 8, Folder 12 |
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How to Watch a Court |
Box 9, Folder 1 |
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Human Sexuality |
Box 9, Folder 2 |
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Housing |
Box 9, Folder 3 |
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“In the Image of God” International Community at the National Meeting of United Presbyterian Women 18–23 July 1979 |
Box 9, Folder 4 |
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JSAC- Criminal Justice |
Box 9, Folder 5 |
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And Justice For All…A Television Documentary in Four Parts: Participants Handbook |
Box 9, Folder 6 |
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Justice Jottings |
Box 9, Folder 7 |
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League of Women Voters- President Nancy Newman |
Box 9, Folder 8 |
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Listening Teams, Church Women United, Chicago |
Box 9, Folder 9 |
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Marriage, Family, and Divorce |
Box 9, Folder 10 |
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Mennonite Central Committee on Women’s Concerns Report Numbers: 51, 54–61, 63–65, 67–68 |
Box 9, Folder 11 |
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Mennonite Central Committee on Women’s Concerns Report Numbers: 69, 73–80, 82–87, 89 |
Box 9, Folder 12 |
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Mennonite Central Committee on Women’s Concerns Report Numbers: 90–91, 93–102 |
Box 9, Folder 13 |
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Mennonite Central Committee on Women’s Concerns Report Numbers: 103–111, 113, 119, 121, 123–124, 126 |
Box 9, Folder 14 |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence- 9 May 1984, 7 November 1984, and 2 May 19?? |
Box 9, Folder 15 |
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Miscellaneous |
Box 9, Folder 16 |
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Motherhood |
Box 9, Folder 17 |
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National Conference on the Religious Communities Roles in Breaking the Cycle of Violence and Vengeance 2–5 November 1983, Indianapolis |
Box 10, Folder 1 |
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New Directions for Women May/June 1980 |
Box 10, Folder 2 |
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The New Women’s Budget |
Box 10, Folder 3 |
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Newspaper Clippings (1 of 8) |
Box 10, Folder 4 |
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Newspaper Clippings (2 of 8) |
Box 10, Folder 5 |
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Newspaper Clippings (3 of 8) |
Box 10, Folder 6 |
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Newspaper Clippings (4 of 8) |
Box 10, Folder 7 |
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Newspaper Clippings (5 of 8) |
Box 10, Folder 8 |
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Newspaper Clippings (6 of 8) |
Box 11, Folder 1 |
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Newspaper Clippings (7 of 8) |
Box 11, Folder 2 |
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Newspaper Clippings (8 of 8) |
Box 11, Folder 3 |
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Of A Like Mind |
Box 11, Folder 4 |
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Our Rightful Place: The Story of Presbyterian Women, 1970–1983 |
Box 11, Folder 5 |
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Poverty |
Box 11, Folder 6 |
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Presbyterian Women United for Economic Justice, Washington D.C. 4–7 October 1984 |
Box 11, Folder 7 |
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The President’s Health Security Plan |
Box 11, Folder 8 |
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Project T.R.U.S.T. |
Box 11, Folder 9 |
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Racism and Sexism |
Box 11, Folder 10 |
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Report of Cook County Court Watching Project to Illinois Law Enforcement Commission 1974–1975 |
Box 11, Folder 11 |
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Resource Listing of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ Women |
Box 12, Folder 1 |
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Sexual Harassment |
Box 12, Folder 2 |
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Sexual and Physical Violence |
Box 12, Folder 3 |
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The Tribune: A Women and Development Quarterly Newsletter, Number 42, June 1989 |
Box 12, Folder 4 |
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July 1985 |
Box 12, Folder 5 |
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Witchcraft |
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Women Connecting, Participants Handbook |
Box 12, Folder 7 |
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Women in Politics |
Box 12, Folder 8 |
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Women’s Prisons |
Box 12, Folder 9 |
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Women’s Studies (1 of 5) |
Box 12, Folder 10 |
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Women’s Studies (2 of 5) |
Box 12, Folder 11 |
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Women’s Studies (3 of 5) |
Box 12, Folder 12 |
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Women’s Studies (4 of 5) |
Box 12, Folder 13 |
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Women’s Studies (5 of 5) |
Box 12, Folder 14 |
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World Updates, Vol. 7, No. 1 |
Box 12, Folder 15 |
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