NATIONAL LEAGUE FILES,, 1920-1978.

Summary:Material from the League of Women Voters of the United States received by the state league office. Primarily publications, including national convention and interim council programs and proceedings, Programs of Work, bylaws, newsletters, pamphlets, flyers, broadsides, committee documents and handbooks. Also includes correspondence, memoranda, and lists of National Board Members and State Presidents.

Of particular interest are several pamphlets detailing the history of the league and its form of organization and the printed speeches of the League's President during the Depression in which the time-consuming procedures of the League are critiqued and defended during calls for emergency legislation. Also of interest are League of Women Voters Education Fund publications which address the rapid social change of the 1960s.

The Equal Rights Amendment file contains testimony presented at a hearing before a Sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing the Equal Rights Amendment (1938). The Honor Roll and Related Materials file documents the League's plan to commemorate notable leaders of the suffragist and women's movements (1929-1931). The Anna Howard Shaw Memorial file (1920-1922) contains fundraising appeals from the League's precursor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to commemorate the deceased suffrage leader.