Women's Studies 200/201: Milwaukee Activism

Records of the Milwaukee (Wis.) chapter of NOW consisting of board minutes, bylaws, newsletters, and subject files concentrating on such issues as abortion and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

See the files on “Chronology of Recent Highlights of Wisconsin's Women's Movement,” 1962-1977, and on the ERA, in box 1.

Collection contains Minutes, newsletters, miscellaneous print and near print materials of an umbrella group of women's organizations in Milwaukee (Wis.) whose activities included advocating for battered women, “Take Back the Night” rallies, running a women's crisis line, and fighting for other feminist goals.

See particularly Box 1, file 8 and Box 2 files 3, 6, 13.

Milwaukee: Kaleidoscope, 1967-1971.
Call Number: (SPL-Folio +) PS1 .K3x
A Milwaukee underground newspaper published from 1967 to 1971, Kaleidoscope had a strongly activist bent, including women's and feminist issues.

Milwaukee, Liberation Publications, October 1971 - January 1981.
Call Number: (SPL) HQ76.8 .W6 G6x
Periodical of the Gay Peoples Union (or GPU), which was founded in 1971 as a social service agency dedicated to the needs of the gay community, and concurrently dedicated to educating the community at large about gays and lesbians.

Milwaukee: Hag Rag, 1986-1993.
Call Number: (SPL) HQ75 .H34x
Hag Rag was a bi-monthly, lesbian-feminist newspaper focusing on news, non-fiction, political analysis, and commentary of interest to lesbians and radical feminists.

Milwaukee, Liberation Publications, October 1971 - January 1981.

Milwaukee, 1967-1971