Resource Library

Historical Resources and Archives

Asian Nation: Women and Gender Issues
www.asian-nation.org/gender.shtml

Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Archives, Duke University
library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/alfa/

Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University Libraries
library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/

Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa

Chicana por Mi Raza: Chicana Feminist Archive Project
mariacotera.com/digital-humanities/

Chicago Women’s Liberation Union
www.cwluherstory.org/

Combahee River Collective Statement
circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html

Comision Femenil Mexicana, University of California, Santa Barbara Library
www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/cema/cfmn

Documenting the Midwestern Origins of the Twentieth-Century Women’s Movement, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=uw-whs-mss00823;focusrgn=contentslist;cc=wiarchives;byte=211280461

The Equal Rights Amendment
www.equalrightsamendment.org/index.htm

ERAmerica Records, Library of Congress
findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms011239&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid

Freedom Summer Collection, Wisconsin Historical Society
content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15932coll2

Jo Freeman
www.jofreeman.com/

Her Hat Was In the Ring! U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920
www.herhatwasinthering.org/web/index.aspx

Highlander Folk School, Civil Rights Digital Library
crdl.usg.edu/events/highlander_25th/?Welcome

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
networks.h-net.org/

H-Net List for Women’s History
networks.h-net.org/h-women

The History of Nursing: 101 Informative Websites
lpntornbridge.org/nursing-history/

International Museum of Women
www.imow.org/

Jewish Women's Archive
jwa.org/

Lesbian Herstory Archives
www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org

Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Website
chicanas.com/

The Mazer Lesbian Archives at University of California, Los Angeles
digital2.library.ucla.edu/mazer/

Museum of Modern Art: Documenting a Feminist Past
www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2007/feminist_past/

National Black Feminist Organization Collection, University of Illinois
www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/NBFOb.html

National Women’s History Project
www.nwhp.org/

National Women’s Law Center
nwlc.org/

National Woman’s Party, Sewall-Belmont House Museum
www.sewallbelmont.org/learn/national-womans-party/

National Woman’s Party, Social Welfare History Project
www.socialwelfarehistory.com/organizations/national-womans-party/

National Women’s Political Caucus Records, Vassar College
specialcollections.vassar.edu/collections/manuscripts/findingaids/national_womens_political_caucus.html

Native Feminists, University of Illinois
www.ais.illinois.edu/news/features/native/

Our Bodies, Ourselves
www.ourbodiesourselves.org/history/

Pew Research Center
www.pewresearch.org/

Redstockings
www.redstockings.org/

Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park
www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm

The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library

Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives at Smith College
www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/about.html

Gloria Steinem: Agents of Social Change, The Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/agents/steinem.html

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee 50th Anniversary
www.sncc50thanniversary.org/sncc.html

Third World Women’s Alliance Records
asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss527.html

Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, University of Minnesota
www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/default.html

United States Department of Labor Timeline
www.dol.gov/100/timeline/alternate.version.timeline.html

United States Department of Labor Women’s Bureau
www.dol.gov/wb/

Voices of Feminism, Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College Libraries
www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/vof-intro.html

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
womhist.alexanderstreet.com/

Highlights in the History of Military Women
www.womensmemorial.org/Education/timeline.html

Women of the World, Unite!
www.carolhanisch.org/

Women’s Museum of California
womensmuseumca.org/

Women’s Sports Foundation Title IX Legislative Chronology
www.womenssportsfoundation.org/en/home/advocate/title-ix-and-issues/history-of-title-ix/history-of-title-ix

U.S. Women’s History Websites by State

Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame
alaskawomenshalloffame.org/

Arkansas Women’s History Institute
www.arkansaswomen.org/

Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame
www.cogreatwomen.org/

Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
www.cwhf.org/

Florida Memory, State Library and Archives of Florida: Women’s History
www.floridamemory.com/onlineclassroom/women-history/

Georgia Women of Achievement
georgiawomen.org/

Chicago Area Women’s History Council (Illinois)
www.cawhc.org/

Maine Women’s Hall of Fame, University of Maine
www.uma.edu/community/maine-womens-hall-of-fame/

Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
www.mdwomensheritagecenter.org/

Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame
www.michiganwomenshalloffame.org/

Nevada Women’s History Project
www.unr.edu/nwhp/bios/alphabio.htm

New Jersey Women’s History
www.njwomenshistory.org/discover/biographies/

1970s North Carolina Feminisms
sites.duke.edu/docst110s_01_s2011_bec15/

Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame
www.ok.gov/ocsw/Oklahoma_Women%27s_Hall_of_Fame/

Women’s History in Oregon, The Oregon Historical Society
ohs.org/education/focus/women_history_oregon.cfm

Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
www.riheritagehalloffame.org/inductees_detail.cfm?act=list&crit=cat&catid=5&catname=Women

South Carolina’s Information Highway: Special Women in Our State’s History
www.sciway.net/hist/people/women.html

Women in Texas History
www.womenintexashistory.org/

Vermont Women’s History Project
www.womenshistory.vermont.gov/

Virginia Women in History
www.lva.virginia.gov/public/vawomen/

Women’s History Consortium, Washington State Historical Society
www.washingtonhistory.org/research/whc/

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1971 The Click! Moment

The idea of the “Click! moment” was coined by Jane O’Reilly. “The women in the group looked at her, looked at each other, and ... click! A moment of truth. The shock of recognition. Instant sisterhood... Those clicks are coming faster and faster. They were nearly audible last summer, which was a very angry summer for American women. Not redneck-angry from screaming because we are so frustrated and unfulfilled-angry, but clicking-things-into-place-angry, because we have suddenly and shockingly perceived the basic disorder in what has been believed to be the natural order of things.” Article, “The Housewife's Moment of Truth,” published in the first issue of Ms. Magazine and in New York Magazine. Republished in The Girl I Left Behind, by Jane O'Reilly (Macmillan, 1980). Jane O'Reilly papers, Schlesinger Library.