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Archives and Special Collections Finding Aids
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| Title: | Somerville Women's Educational Center, Inc. records |
| Dates: | 1975-1983 (bulk 1977-1981) |
| Call Number: | M26 |
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Historical Note
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The Somerville (Massachusetts) Women's Educational Center, Inc. was founded in 1976 and incorporated the following year. It emerged from an idea of the planning group of the Somerville Women's Fair, and in the fall of 1976, 40 women meet to form committees to organize the Center.Several groups and projects evolved out of the Center, including the Matching Services Project, the Mothers Group, and the Women's Chorus. One of SWC's largest projects was Somerville Women Against Rape. The decisions to create these entities were often the result of questionnaires that were given to all women who came into the center and were included in the newsletters. In addition detailed phone logs were kept by staffers. The results of these logs and questionnaires were constantly tabulated, in an on-going process to develop programs and activities.From 1977-1979, most of the decision-making was done at monthly general membership meetings. In 1979 a much smaller Core Group was formed, which made policy decisions; the operational and program decisions of the Center continued to be made at the general meetings. A combination of factors, particularly the lack of stable financial backing, led to Center closing in 1983. |
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| Bibliography |
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History of SWC [M26, Box 3, Folder 41]
Minutes [M26, Box 4, Folders 55-60] |
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