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Archives and Special Collections Finding Aids
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| Collection |
| Title: | Abortion Action Coalition records |
| Dates: | 1970-1982 |
| Call Number: | M21 |
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Scope and Content Note
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The Abortion Action Coalition collection (AAC) consists of records collected by Leslie Cagan, Marla Erlien, Madge Kaplan and Clare Sheridan, members. The collection includes material that traces the founding and development of AAC. Because the Coalition worked with many other Boston area and national groups, this collection provides an insight into the problems women faced as federal and state legislators tried to curtail their abortion rights.
AAC records comprise approximately 2.3 cubic feet of material. The majority of the records date between 1977 and 1980. The records include AAC brochures, articles on abortion and women's health issues, clippings, contacts and membership lists, correspondence, flyers, how to media packets, information on clinics, minutes, organizing material on the International Day of Action in 1979 (Box 1), pamphlets, and speeches. The collection includes data about abortion and women's health legislation during the 1970s, both national and from Massachusetts, which can be found in the Legislative Liaison Committee folders (Box 1).
There is information on anti-abortion groups, abortion, birth control, and sterilization. Newsletters and pamphlets from other groups concerned with abortion and women's reproductive rights are also included (Boxes 2 and 3). |
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