POST BOARD REPORTS,, 1961-1988.

Summary: Materials sent to local league presidents, consultants, and county council chairmen by the state president after the monthly State Board meeting. Subjects covered include legislative and program goals of the state league, relations among leagues and between county councils and leagues, fundraising, Voters Service and changes in the League in the 1970s.

Document types include correspondence, reports, testimony, information sheets, minutes, broadsides and other publications, flyers, announcements for conferences hosted by the League and by other organizations, calendars, press releases, budgets and questionnaires. In the early 1960s, the Post Board Report consisted of a few pages reporting on the board meeting, committee work, inter-league and county organizations and the state convention. Beginning in about 1967, the Post Board Reports started to include many attachments, particularly reports and program information. The president often included a letter which provides a useful summary of state league activities. Of particular interest are documentation of the League's support for the Equal Rights Amendment, improvement in the legal status of women and state funding for abortion in the 1970s and early 1980s. Also of interest is the State President's assessment of the causes of the 1970s decline in membership (1978). This series also contains a few special mailings sent out by the State President in months when there was no State Board meeting.