Topic: Women's History Resources in Archives & Special Collections

Nancy L. Johnson (born 1935) is a former U.S. Representative, where she served both Connecticut’s 6th District from 1983 to 2003 and its 5th District from 2003 to 2007. From 1995 to 1997, she chaired the House Ethics Committee. She served in the Connecticut Senate from 1977 to 1983.

Audrey P. Beck (1931-1983) was a Connecticut politician and professor. She served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1967 to 1975, followed by a term in the Connecticut Senate from 1975 until her death in 1983.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1890 the daughter of Seymour and Harriet Jackson Going, Chase Going Woodhouse received a B.A. (1912) and M.A. (Economics, 1913) from McGill University. She studied for her Ph.D. at the University of Berlin (Germany, 1913-1914) and the University of Chicago (1915-1916) and was named a Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Chicago in 1917.

Founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1971 by Barbara G. Lifton and Lee Novick, CWPC was involved in assisting to gain public office positions. The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, and publications pertaining to the activities of the Connecticut Women's Political Caucus.

Founded in 1966, the National Organization for Women is a feminist organization, with currently around 500,000 members. The organization advocates for women’s rights across many fronts, including reproductive health. This collection includes informational literature, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, and more from both the Connecticut chapter of NOW.

Miriam Brooks Butterworth, educator and political activist, was born on April 14, 1918. Her experience studying in Nazi Germany in 1938 inspired Mrs. Butterworth to live a life of public service and political activism. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, notes, photographs, artifacts, and memoirs regarding Miriam Butterworth's life and activism in local, state, and national campaigns from 1935-2008.

Magdalena Gómez is a poet, playwright, actor, director, educator, producer, youth mentor, national keynote speaker and arts based activist. Born in Manhattan, New York City in 1953, and raised in the Hunts Point section of Bronx, she started her career as a performance poet in 1971, while she was still in high school. She became involved in NYC poetry scene by performing her poetry in cafes,
bars, churches, theaters, artist lofts and wherever opportunity presented itself within the tri-state area. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, CDs, posters, flyers, promotional postcards, press releases that document the life of Magdalena Gómez as a poet, writer, spoken word performer, and social activist for such issues as homeless, arts in K-12 education, teenage bullying, teenage empowerment through the arts, women’s rights, Latino/a and other minorities rights

Eleanor Taft Tilton was involved in civic and state affairs. She was an active opponent of the I-84 extension (Bushnell Park Connector); she was a member of the
Election Laws Commission, PTA, served as secretary to the Fine Arts Commission, and as president of the Hartford League of Women Voters. The collection reflects Mrs. Tilton's active interest in civic and state affairs. The collection includes correspondence, reports, maps, plans, newspaper clippings, notebooks, minutes, agendas, and financial records.