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Part I: Administrative Files Part II: Subject Files Part III: Archives

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Collection Overview………………………………………………………….…………. v ALFA/ Timeline……………………………………………………………….. vii Introduction to the Collection…………………………………………………………… xv Editorial Note……………….…….....………………………………………………… xxii Reel Index……………………………………………………………………………… xxiv Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………………….. xxix Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Part I: Administrative Files …….……………………………………………… 1 Part II: Subject Files ………………………………………………………… 8 Part III: Archives …………………………………………………………… 27

COLLECTION OVERVIEW

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) was founded in 1972 by a group of radical , many socialist and all feminist, who broke away from Atlanta's Women's Liberation Center and the Liberation movement because they felt that neither had adequately addressed issues of concern to women as lesbians and lesbians as women. ALFA initially worked to fill a social void for and to offer a political voice to Atlanta lesbians, publicizing its efforts through a self-produced monthly newsletter, the Atalanta. Over the years, as the political and cultural climate changed and lesbians created new avenues through which to pursue their interests, ALFA struggled to find a clear and unique sense of purpose; this historically telling struggle is well- documented by ALFA itself, in minutes and mailings to its membership. In spite of its eventual decision to disband, ALFA remains known as one of the oldest lesbian feminist organizations in the United States, and a pioneer in the fight for lesbian, gay, and women's rights. One of the activities of ALFA--deeply concerned from the outset with the preservation of lesbian herstory --was to build and maintain the Southern Feminist Library and Archives (SFLA). The library and archives, which provided a material link between ALFA and other progressive movements and organizations throughout the world, included the archival records of ALFA and several other southern feminist groups; a massive collection of feminist, lesbian, and activist periodicals; and a circulating library of feminist and gay and lesbian books. ALFA disbanded in 1994 after over 20 years of Southern feminist activism.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS NOTE

When ALFA disbanded in 1994, the archival collections and the bulk of the periodicals collection were transferred to Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The book collection and the remaining periodicals stayed in Atlanta, with books relating to feminist theory going to Emory University and the rest to a community library. The ALFA Archives and Periodicals Collections that were transferred to Duke are an incredibly rich source of information about feminist and lesbian activism and communities, especially in the Southeast, from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s.

The ALFA Archives includes the organizational records of ALFA as well as other southern radical women's groups such as Lucina's Music/Orchid Productions; Radio Free Georgia (WRFG) women's programming; the womonwrites conference for lesbian writers and publishers; the Southern Women's Music festival; the Atlanta Socialist-Feminist Women's Union; and Dykes for the Second American Revolution (DAR II). The extensive subject files, which are a part of ALFA's archives, document scores of other feminist, lesbian, and activist organizations and events as well as provide information on a broad range of feminist and lesbian issues. Of particular note are ALFA's _Theory/Analysis (Women) files, as well as their collection of publications by KNOW, Inc.; using these primary materials, researchers can get a good sense of the issues that gave rise to the women's liberation movement and to ALFA in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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The ALFA Periodicals Collection contains literally hundreds of grassroots newsletters and journals, many of which are now ephemeral and not in any library. This extensive library of feminist, lesbian and gay, and activist periodicals is more fully described in a separate guide.

PROCESSING NOTE

For the most part, the original order of the ALFA Archives was maintained after being transferred to Duke. Several boxes, which had been in storage and never fully processed by ALFA, were organized upon arrival at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Minor rearrangement and consolidation of some of the ALFA records and subject files helped to reduce confusion and highlight areas of strength.

vi ALFA AND RELATED LESBIAN COMMUNITY TIMELINE ¸ ALFA prepared the following timeline cataloging the events and milestones of the organization and related lesbian community through June 1984, at which time the organization apparently ceased updating the timeline. The remainder of the timeline was prepared by Ian Lekus, who wrote the Introduction to the Collection, and is based on the ALFA organization files and ALFA’s Atalanta newsletter. ¹ 1969 Great Speckled Bird’s Women’s Caucus forms 1970 Atlanta Women’s Liberation forms 1971 Gay Liberation Front forms and Womansong Theatre performs in Atlanta Dec. 1971 “Sleeping Beauty: A Lesbian Fairy Tale” printed by Sojourner Truth Press (a woman’s press collective) June 23, 1972 First ALFA meeting Nov. 1972 First ALFA fundraiser (talent show) at the Twelfth Gate Feb. 1973 Open House with MCC women March 1973 Gay Conference in Atlanta; dance at GLF building on Pine Street June 1973 First ALFA participation in Gay Pride March July 1973 WRFG show “Lesbian Woman” begins; hosted by ALFA member ALFA Pickets the Journal and Constitution in protest of their refusal to print info on ALFA events Aug. 1973 Scarlet, the ALFA Steering Committee, is set up Sept. 1973 First ALFA newsletter printed Oct. 1973 Last ALFA meeting at 1190 Mansfield Ave, the Original ALFA House Jan. 1974 First open lesbian participation in ERA Coalition and March Feb. 1974 First 2 ALFA Rap Groups established Susan B. Anthony Celebration, Rita Mae Brown reads from her new novel, Rubyfruit Jungle June 1974 ALFA sponsors Gay 90’s Carnival during Gay Pride Week July 1974 The first “out” lesbian softball team in the Atlanta City League, the ALFA Omegas, play their first league game Sept. 1974 Housewarming at the 2nd, and current, ALFA house Margaret Mead interviewed for ALFA newsletter Fall1974 ALFA Poetry Group begins Dec. 31, 1974 First performance of Red Theatre

vii Jan. 1975 ALFA sponsors fundraiser (Woman’s Dance) for ERA coalition at Ball Recreation Center ALFA woman speaks at ERA Rally Feb. 1975 Maria Isabel, one of “The Three Marias,” interviewed for ALFA newsletter

June 1977 Pokey Anderson (ALFA member in Houston, TX.) elected National Co-chair of the National Gay Task Force (NGTF) Atlanta’s Gay Pride Association attempts to form the Atlanta Gay Rights Association July 1977 Boogiewimmin created Charis expands and opens new Women’s Section Aug. 1977 Dykes Together, a lesbian AA group, forms Oct. 1977 Benefit for Vicki Gabriner’s legal fight at the Sweet Gum Head March 1978 Meg Christian and Teresa Trull in concert (Lucina’s) National Lesbian Organization founding Conference in Mid 1978 Article by 2 ALFA women appears in “Our Right To Love,” a book produced by NGTF women April 1978 ALFA women active in planning the Southeast Conference Of Lesbians And Gay Men out of which emerges the Southeast Lesbian Network and the initial planning for a Lesbian Writer’s Conference May 1978 “Lesbian Region” column in ALFA newsletter starts June 1978 Anita Bryant speaks at the Southern Baptist national Convention and ALFA women join pickets at the World Congress Center July 1978 First Antioch Intern placed with ALFA Piano donated to the ALFA house Sweet Honey & The Rock concert (Lucina’s) High Museum vetoes showing The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago Sept. 1978 Southeast Conference To Build The Matriarchy held at the Pagoda Oct. 1978 ALFA house painted and redecorated Feminist Chorus practices at the ALFA house Nov. 1978 ALFA Intern speaks at a Press Conference with representatives of First Tuesday and ACLU celebrating the defeat of the Briggs Initiative in California concert (Lucina’s) Council On Battered Women opens shelter

viii Jan. 1979 First in a series of Community Sketches appears in the ALFA newsletter Feb. 1979 Library Committee starts organization of Archives Atlanta Gay Center starts functioning March 1979 Feminist writers Judith Mcdaniel and Maureen Brady of Spinsters Ink speak at the ALFA house April 1979 Margie Adam concert (Lucina’s) Aug. 1981 ALFA member, Margo George, receives the Gama “Humanitarian Award” for 1981 The Chamberpot performs at ALFA’s birthday party Nov. 1981 Southern Feminist Library & Archives is incorporated Matrix Music and Orchid Productions forms out of Lucina’s Dec. 1981 Committee to Make ALFA House Barrier Free (Aka—the Ramp Committee) forms Jan. 1982 Women’s radio group forms, instigated by ALFA women working at WRFG Feb. 1982 5 week Sign Language Class starts at ALFA house March 1982 Lesbian Family Support Group forms April 1982 ALFA decides to start a House Fund for eventual down-payment on permanent house May 1982 Ramp built—ALFA is wheelchair accessible!! First open meeting of Sisters, a support group for Black lesbians June 1982 ALFA-10 t-shirts printed Aug.1982 ALFA Benefit Night (special showing) at Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party at the FOX Theatre Celebration of ALFA’s 10th Birthday - first public performance of the Atlanta Women’s Chorus and last (?) performance by Moral Hazard (sob!) April 1983 Rita Mae Brown booksigning at Charis June 1983 Lesbian Pride March in Little 5 Points June 1983 Black Women’s Health Project holds National Conference at Spelman July 1983 Jewish Lesbian Support Group forms Aug. 1983 First Southern Feminist Library & Archives Newsletter Printed Oct. 1983 ALFA women at Women’s Peace Encampment near Savannah River Plant -

ix Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) forms Sept. 1983 Take Back The Night march Oct. 1983 Kate Millett speaks at GA State University Nov. 1983 First performance of the Jane Doe Band at the Tower Lounge Nov. 1983 Atlanta City Council passes three anti-discrimination ordinances; the Atlanta Anti-Discrimination Project (AADP) formed by BWMT and joined by ALFA to address compliance with the new laws Jan. 1984 Fat Dykes organization meeting Feb. 1984 Older Lesbian Energy (OLE) starts meeting in Little 5 Points Community Center Feb. 1984 Lesbians For Empowerment, Action & Politics (LEAP) formed from Southeast Lesbian Conference planner’s meeting March 1984 ALFA night at Sammies March 1984 Robin Tyler at ALFA house March 1984 Evelyn Beck, editor of Nice Jewish Girls, speaks at GSU on Jew-hating, racism and homophobia May 1984 Jean Swallow & Sherry Thomas, authors of Out From Under: Sober Dykes & Their Friends, at Charis May 1984 Jewish Lesbian Writers Group forms May 1984 First Women’s Music & Comedy Festival held in N. Georgia June 1984 Premier of Out & About, gay/lesbian TV show on channel 16 June 1984 Lesbian Softball Tournament during Lesbian & Gay Pride Week; All-Star game with men from Hotlanta League June 1984 Sonia Johnson speaks at Gay Pride rally July 1984 ALFA representatives and other Atlanta lesbian and gay activists meet with Atlanta police commissioner and chief to discuss community-police relations Summer 1984 250 people attend First Southeastern Lesbian/Gay Health Conference in Augusta, GA Aug. 1984 Women Against Military Madness lead discussion on Women’s Peace Encampment near Savannah River nuclear plant Oct. 1984 Lesbian Empowerment In Action And Politics (LEAP) retreat held on women- owned rural land near Gainesville, FL Nov. 1984 Party/reading/crafts festival for Charis Books & More tenth anniversary Dec. 1984 Evelyn Newman, staff member from National Anti-Klan Network (later the Center for Democratic Renewal), makes presentation at ALFA house Feb. 1985 Alix Dobkin performs in Atlanta

x Apr. 1985 Lesbian comedienne and political satirist Kate Clinton performs at Dancers Collective June 1985 Reading at Charis Books & More by Rosemary Curb, co-editor of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence Sept. 1985 Benefit concert by The Witt Sisters for the Southern Feminist Library and Archives Sept. 1985 Atlanta African American women make presentation at U.N. Women’s Conference in Nairobi, Kenya Nov. 1985 First ALFA costume ball Mar. 1986 Lesbian Herstory Archives slide show at ALFA house Mar. 1986 SFLA/ALFA purchases house at 64 Clay Street May 1986 reads at Seven Stages June 1986 Beth York represents ALFA and Atlanta women’s community at International Women’s Music Festival in BeerSheva, Israel June 1986 U.S. Supreme Court votes 5-4 to uphold Georgia sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick. ALFA members take part in subsequent discussions and protests Oct. 1986 ALFA/Boogiewimmin retreat at John Tanner State Park, featuring Amazon Mud Wrestling Nov. 1986- Oct. 1987 ALFA women and other local activists publicize, sponsor benefit events, and debate platform for second National March On Washington For Lesbian And Gay Rights held Oct. 11, 1987 Feb. 1987 Feminist theologian reads at Emory University Mar. 1987 Cris Williamson and Tret Fure performance at Peachtree Playhouse April 1987 Fat Dykes erotica show and tell April 1987 Women’s Cycling Network first Southeast Conference in Atlanta April 1987 Atlanta March Committee sponsors Romanovsky And Phillips benefit concert for October March on Washington May 1987 ALFA helps host Atlanta March Committee’s Third National Conference Of March For Lesbian And Gay Rights. ALFA and Black and White Men Together/Atlanta co-sponsor benefit at The Bar on Peachtree June 1987 Karen Thompson speaks at Charis Books & More about her legal case to win access to her partner, Sharon Kowalski, who was severely injured and permanently incapacitated in 1983 car accident. Other June and July 1987 readings at Charis include Mab Segrest & Mini Bruce Pratt, Margaret Randall & Gloria Anzaldúa, and bell hooks Aug. 1987 Atlanta Feminist Women’s Chorus holds 70+ family yard sale to support the chorus’ trip to the March On Washington

xi Oct. 1987 ALFA takes part in National March On Washington, civil disobedience protests at U.S. Supreme Court against Bowers v. Hardwick decision. Oct. 1987 ALFA house’s rental apartment burglarized Oct. 1988 Boogiewimmin produce “Family Feud”-style “Dueling Dykes” game show fundraising event for Southern Feminist Library And Archives Fall 1988 SLFA issues promissory notes to finance mortgage from ALFA house purchase Jan. 1989 Southeast Regional meeting held at Emory University to plan first National Lesbian Agenda Conference. In March, Atlanta outbids five other cities to win the right to host the conference. In April, Atlanta Lesbian Agenda Conference Committee (ALACC) forms and begins meeting at ALFA house to conduct host committee work Mar. 1989 Boogiewimmin hold “Mortgage-Busting Auction.” Promissory notes, auction, and gifts raise $27,600 from the lesbian community to successfully pay off balloon mortgage on the ALFA house May 1989 ALFA co-sponsors speech by Ramon Cardona, a representative of El Salvador’s FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional), with the Atlanta Committee On Latin America and numerous other local social justice organizations May 1989 Pam Martin, a leader of ALFA and Fat Dykes leader, dies at age 44, weeks after moving to Minnesota. Memorial services held in Atlanta, Minneapolis and at Southern Women’s Music And Comedy Festival, while Panther LL (gay male Levi/Leather club) holds fundraiser to support ALFA and to subsidize ALFA members’ participation in Minneapolis memorial service Nov. 1989 Georgia Abortion Rights Action League leads march and rally at state capitol in defense of reproductive rights. Nov.- Dec. 1989 Pro-Choice Coalition invites Metro Atlanta Council Of Gay And Lesbian Organizations (to which ALFA belongs) to join. Some gay men object to joining the abortion rights coalition, prompting protest from feminist members (both women and men) of MACGLO. The disagreement is one of several controversies that leads MACGLO to disband in Jan. 1991 Winter 1989/ 1990 Act-Up/Atlanta forms women’s committee and holds protest at state capitol against Georgia sodomy laws

Feb. 1990 ALFA/Boogiewimmin and Fourth Tuesday co-sponsor Winter Madness Dance Mar.- Apr. 1990 ALFA and ALACC host ALACC’s state conference in advance of April 1991 national conference; ALFA’s annual spring Azalea Dance timed to coincide with state conference

xii June 1990 performs at Seven Stages Performing Arts Center Jan. 1991 Mab Segrest leads anti-racism workshop in lead-up to National Lesbian Conference Jan. 1991 Four ALFA members take part in an Atlanta peace vigil on eve of Persian Gulf War April 1991 National Lesbian Conference held in Atlanta, April 24-28 June 1991 In response to decreasing participation in the organization, ALFA hosts community potluck dinner to discuss whether to keep the group active June 1991 18 Queer Nation/Atlanta protestors arrested at major demonstration against Cracker Barrel restaurant chain’s policies to fire lesbian and gay employees. ALFA members take part in ongoing Cracker Barrel protests June 1991 30,000 people take part in Atlanta’s largest lesbian/gay pride march to date; ALFA marches in between Resist/Dissent and Digging Dykes of Decatur Sept. 1991 To revitalize lesbian-feminist community interest in ALFA, Feminist Exchange committee forms and initiates Second Saturday Series on topics such as butch- politics, alternative health, and breast cancer Oct. 1991 Five ALFA members arrested in Orlando at nursing home owners’ lobbyist convention for protesting in support of the rights of people with disabilities Dec. 1991 ALFA co-sponsors Take Back Our Rights celebration/protest with 20 other community groups to mark the bicentennial of the federal Bill of Rights Jan. 1992 Lesbian and gay community leaders announce plans to “queer” the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, demanding repeal of the state sodomy law, passage of a hate crimes law that includes sexual orientation, and local adoption of domestic partner legislation Mar. 1992 Ecofeminist activist Barbara Rose offers Women’s Bicycle Workshop at ALFA house Nov. 1992 To address limited increase in participation since June 1991 community meeting, 12 members attend ALFA general membership to vote upon whether or not ALFA should shut its doors. Members agree to keep ALFA open Dec. 1992 ALFA member invited to join Fulton County Commission’s Gay and Lesbian Advisory Commission Jan. 1993 Sarah Schulman reads and presents video on at Charis Books & More. Jan. 1993 ALFA takes part in pro-choice rally to mark 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade; U.S. Representatives John Lewis and Cynthia McKinney lead the march April 1993 Members present slide show on ALFA’s history and future to packed house at Charis Books & More Aug. 1993 Leslie Feinberg and Chrystos readings at Charis Books & More

xiii Fall 1993 ALFA begins negotiations with various southern libraries to find a new home for its archives Apr. 1994 ALFA members vote to close down the organization. Archives sold to Duke University

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INTRODUCTION TO THE COLLECTION

Knowledge and Networks, Culture and Politics: ALFA and the Evolution of Lesbian-Feminist Organizing

Scholarship on modern American feminism, the history of sexuality, and social justice organizing in the United States since the 1960s cannot be considered complete without taking into account the politics and culture generated by lesbian feminists. For many women alienated by the widespread sexism they encountered in that decade’s civil rights and antiwar movements, feminism offered a new way to connect the personal and the political. Feminism offered a theoretical foundation for an alternative social structure to one in which men determined political, social, economic, and cultural relations. However, any notions that a universal sisterhood linked all women were quickly shattered as women of color, working-class women, and lesbians questioned the biases and assumptions of the pioneers of what has come to be called Second Wave Feminism. For many lesbians, the emergent feminist movement quickly proved an inhospitable home. Betty Friedan and other leaders of the National Organization for Women warned of a “” that threatened feminism and moved to silence or expel lesbians who were insufficiently discreet regarding their orientation. Roxanne Dunbar of the Boston-based Cell 16 declared that feminism’s task was to get women out of bed rather than to change the sex of their partners. Still other feminist activists resented the accusations made by some sexist men and antifeminist women that all members of the feminist movement were lesbians. At the dawn of the 1970s, lesbian activists rose up to challenge the prejudices of their heterosexual sisters. One group, the Radicalesbians, issued “The Woman Identified Woman” paper, arguing that lesbianism was not merely a matter of sexual preference. Instead, they argued that relationships between women lay at the heart of creating feminist consciousness and cultural revolution. This philosophy posited lesbianism as a political solution to women’s oppression. In this view, sexual desire followed political orientation, with lesbianism being the logical extension of the feminist commitment to create women’s space, women’s culture, and women’s organizations. The relationships that developed through the daily labor of organizing for women’s rights and through consciousness-raising groups and communal living arrangements fostered intense personal and political intimacy among feminists. A number of women experimented with lesbian relationships—some briefly, others more permanently. Because those lesbian-feminists who joined gay liberation groups commonly found that nascent movement’s internal culture to be as sexist as the women’s liberation movement was homophobic, they created their own organizations, women’s centers, coffeehouses, publications, and other lesbian-oriented places and spaces. Over the next twenty years or so, a “” evolved, a political and cultural phenomenon that nurtured women-oriented cultural expression and worked to combat various forms of oppression. Naiad Press and Diana Press were just two of the many publishers

xv spearheading an explosion in feminist publishing, while women-focused newsletters appeared and vanished across the country on what seemed like an almost daily basis. Women’s music helped create a national sense of lesbian-feminist community through extensive networks of highly popular performers and festivals. Women also dedicated themselves to reimagining the divine, often by exploring ancient matriarchal and earth-centered religions. What lesbian-feminism did and did not comprise remained an open question; in fact, that tension became a defining quality of the movement, especially as notions of lesbian culture and politics grew increasingly diverse through the 1980s and into the early 1990s. While some lesbians questioned whether to work on issues such as childcare and domestic violence (which some interpreted to be the domain of heterosexual women) or AIDS (often seen as the province of gay men), others committed themselves to an all-inclusive, coalition-driven approach to social justice. In some instances, this multipronged attack could lead to contradictory results. So where some lesbian-feminists strongly denounced pornography for denigrating and exploiting women, others argued just as vigorously for the freedom of sexual expression.

Confronting Invisibility and Oppression in “The City Too Busy To Hate”

The Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) archives illustrate how these dynamics evolved in Atlanta. ALFA grew out of the progressive community active in the Little Five Points neighborhood near the Emory University campus. White flight to Atlanta’s suburbs helped create a neighborhood where recent college graduates and community members more dedicated to political organizing than to professional careers could afford to live. By 1971, Little Five Points was home to a visible lesbian-feminist community, and women in the neighborhood held the first meeting of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance in June 1972. Vicki Gabriner, commenting on the Atlanta Women’s Liberation in which she had been involved, noted that that group “was too straight,” while the Georgia “Gay Liberation Front was too male.” Lorraine Fontana, a former VISTA volunteer in inner-city Atlanta and a writer for the local countercultural-political newspaper, The Great Speckled Bird, explained that “we need to organize ourselves; we need not to have to fight with these notions of sexism. We want a women’s-only space—a place where women who come from other neighborhoods or outside of Atlanta … can come to just be with other lesbians.”1 ALFA members created such women’s spaces in Little Five Points, first renting a house on Mansfield Avenue and then on McLendon Avenue. In 1986, after years of fundraising, ALFA purchased a house on Clay Street, which members renovated and made wheelchair-accessible. It was used for political, social, and educational meetings and housed the Southern Feminist Library and Archives. ALFA proclaimed itself a “lesbian-feminist organization open to all lesbians,” whose concerns included the entire spectrum of lesbian-feminist issues. That agenda included liberating women, ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, and eliminating oppression derived from racism, anti-Semitism, economic inequality, and physical disability or appearance. It advocated an end to militarism, as well as the responsible, non-exploitative use of the world’s living and non-living resources (see box/folder 1.2) Throughout its history, ALFA served as a public repository of social, economic, political, and cultural information for the women’s and gay communities. Photographs and programs mark

xvi ALFA as a constant fixture in Atlanta’s annual gay and lesbian pride marches. Its newsletter, Atalanta, ran from 1973 until the organization ceased operations in 1994. Atalanta kept the community abreast of the latest local, regional, national, and international news. It printed activities calendars and meeting reports, provided action alerts for readers to get involved with various social justice causes, advertised the latest conferences, and reviewed all the latest releases in feminist and . The run of Atalanta is invaluable not only to scholars of local feminist and lesbian/gay studies but also to researchers examining how local activists work within national networks of cultural and political exchange. Scholars are just beginning to synthesize the trends in women’s and gay/lesbian histories since the early 1970s. In support of this research the ALFA papers open an invaluable and unprecedented window on this period, allowing researchers to track the political and cultural evolution of these communities over these decades just as ALFA’s membership shifted away from the women who cut their political teeth in the overlapping liberation movements of the 1960s and early 1970s. Looking backward from the first decade of the twenty-first century, we see that the collection reveals how issues currently receiving extensive attention (e.g., lesbian and gay parenting, media representation of homosexuality) drew the attention of movement activists three decades earlier. One example of this can be found in a mid-1970s ALFA pamphlet that while explaining why lesbians should support the proposed Equal Rights Amendment also noted how ERA opponents had tried to frighten Americans by warning that the amendment would lead to homosexual marriage [box/folder 1.19].

Think Nationally, Act Locally and Regionally

While the ALFA Archives are invaluable to scholars writing national accounts of U.S. social movements since the 1960s, it is virtually unthinkable to write feminist or lesbian/gay histories of the post-Stonewall American South without using this collection. The Archives clearly show that ALFA members understood themselves to be situated within regional and national networks connecting diverse progressive social movements as well as urban and rural communities. ALFA and Atlanta more broadly served as a nexus in this web, as shown by the extensive institutional correspondence ALFA received from national feminist and gay organizations. Simultaneously, the correspondence files document how women from across the South—Durham, North Carolina; Tallahassee, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; Columbia, South Carolina; and many smaller cities and towns across Georgia—hoped that ALFA could help address their concerns. ALFA volunteers made sure to preserve correspondence, news clippings, press releases, brochures, buttons, and other materials related to the work of other Atlanta activists involved in social justice organizing pertaining to its mission. The subject files are a particularly rich resource for scholars interested in community theatre and choruses, sexual assault and domestic violence, women’s health, and race and labor politics. Numerous files pertain to local groups connected to national movements, including NOW, Gay Liberation Front, Queer Nation, and the Metropolitan Community Church. In some cases, the files record how ALFA worked with other groups, such as Georgians for the Equal Rights Amendment and the local chapter of Black and White Men Together (BWMT). In the latter example, the ALFA and BWMT collaborated to document racial discrimination in lesbian and gay bars in Atlanta, and the files include a speech

xvii made by lesbian-feminist writer before the 1982 annual convention of Black and White Men Together [box/folder 15.32]. In creating its Southern Feminist Library and Archives, ALFA organizers prioritized collecting women’s books, periodicals, and personal papers (with particular emphases on lesbians and on the gay South), along with materials from Atlanta-area radical and progressive groups with whom lesbian-feminists were likely to create coalitions. The subject files reflect this approach as well: seminal documents from the early years of the modern feminist movement from authors such as Marge Piercy and Ellen Willis stand alongside “Female Liberation: A Joint Statement by Six Female Liberation Groups in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C.” [box/folder 13.1] Conferences, festivals, and Pride events afforded lesbians and gay men from across the South and beyond opportunities to meet, discuss issues of common concern, listen to featured speakers and performers, and eat, dance, and relax together. In 1975, ALFA sponsored the Great Southeast Lesbian Conference, bringing in speakers such as , Charlotte Bunch, and Elena Nachman, and holding workshops on class, spirituality, sexuality, relationships, publishing, and health. ALFA members also took part in lesbian and gay health conferences in Athens, Georgia, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Archives also include position papers, programs, and other materials from the Southeastern Gay and Lesbian Conferences held across the region from the early 1970s to the early 1990s.

Archiving a Movement

“The struggle of humanity against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” Milan Kundera wrote in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. For the women of ALFA, this principle lay at the heart of their activism. Collecting, preserving, and disseminating women’s knowledge was central to ALFA members’ mission to work for social justice, share their experiences, and heal both themselves and the world at large. The most visible form of this activism was the creation of the Southern Feminist Library and Archives, which included much of the ALFA Archives and ALFA Periodicals Collections now at the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Unlike some pioneers of modern feminism, ALFA members did not distinguish themselves by writing renowned theoretical essays or by staging dramatic protests that have become lodged in our collective memory of the movement. But over the course of two decades of organizing, in Atlanta and in coalition with other local, regional, and national organizations, ALFA’s volunteers created one of the most important archives of the modern feminist movement. The microfilm edition of the Archives will provide invaluable source materials to scholars interested in feminism, lesbian and gay studies, social movements and community activism, and cultural politics and production. Historians, sociologists, and political scientists will be able to make extensive use of the Archives, as will scholars from programs in women, gender, and sexuality studies, cultural studies, and library and information science. The Archives are as rewarding for undergraduate and graduate students and for junior scholars researching honors’ and masters’ theses, dissertations, and first monographs as they are for senior scholars writing synthetic works in these fields. Given the commitment of ALFA activists to documenting their own history, the collection will also prove valuable to anyone involved in creating and

xviii maintaining a community history archive, including the myriad of gay/lesbian and feminist local history groups across North America and beyond.

Cultural Politics, Cultural Communities

The politics of cultural organizing are deeply represented in the archives. Programs, festival guides, and correspondence document how Atlanta-area women regularly traveled north for the annual Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Simultaneously, extensive promotional materials, clippings, business records, and photographs document participation in and production of the Southern Women’s Music and Comedy Festival in the mountains of rural northeastern Georgia. Atlanta was a favored destination for feminist singers and all-women bands, performance artists, comediennes, photographers, and other artists, with many of those events sponsored by ALFA and organized by Lucina’s Music (a feminist music production company hosted by ALFA) and its successor, Orchid Productions. The collection contains information on a range of American and Canadian artists and performers, including Holly Near, Meg Christian, Ferron, Kate Clinton, Tee Corinne, Judy Chicago, Joan E. Biren (JEB), Alix Dobkin, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Cris Williamson. A run of catalogs from Ladyslipper Music, the Durham, North Carolina-based music distributor, is among the many catalogs collected by ALFA members, illustrating the abundance of work by feminist and other progressive musicians and filmmakers over thirty years. The ALFA Archives offer ample opportunity for scholars to explore the intersections between political and cultural organizing. ALFA supported WomanSong Theater and Red Dyke Theater and sponsored the first “out lesbian” softball teams in the local women’s leagues, the Omegas and the Amazons. Organizers of the Womonwrites lesbian writers’ conference met at the ALFA house to plan the event. Scholars of the politics of tourism will discover the brochures and other advertisements for women-only and gay/lesbian-specific resorts and excursions. Feminist performers demonstrated how the arts, political protest, and humor need not be mutually exclusive: the subject files [box/folder 10.13] document the play, “Ladies Against Women,” staged by the Berkeley-based Plutonium Players. This theatre troupe toured North America, raising money for reproductive rights, civil liberties groups, organized labor, and the anti-nuclear energy movement. In their satires, the Players urged support for “the Rights of America’s Unconceived,” “the National Association for the Advancement of Rich People,” and “Another Mother for World Domination,” the latter being a group of women who purportedly held bake sales on behalf of the Pentagon.

Changers and the Changed

Befitting its roots in the antiwar and civil rights movements of the 1960s, ALFA’s mission statement committed the lesbian-feminist organization to addressing a broad spectrum of social justice issues, including the arms race and the threat of war, racism, environmental destruction, economic oppression, and discrimination against disabled persons. ALFA’s own records, the subject files collected by its volunteers, and those donated by members and sister organizations afford scholars a rich vein of evidence of how intertwined the lesbian-feminist movement was

xix with other social movements from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Alongside the Plutonium Players, women from ALFA took part in the feminist peace encampments at the Savannah River Plant in Barnwell, South Carolina, one of the two U.S. facilities producing plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons in the early and mid-1980s. Research reports, workshop brochures, maps, and other materials detail the military and ecological issues monitored by Women Against Military Madness. The ALFA Archives provide abundant materials for researchers examining the relationship between gender, sexuality, and the state, addressing such issues as women’s legal rights, work and welfare, law enforcement, the military, and conditions in jails and prisons. ALFA received letters from women serving in the armed forces: for example, one officer stationed in West Germany in the 1970s mailed in her membership dues along with an order for Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle and Sarah Aldridge’s The Latecomer [box/folder 3.2]. Correspondence arrived from women in state and federal prisons across the Southeast and even from Ohio and Iowa. The subject files document ALFA’s concern for how prison life was shaped by issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, including materials from Aid to Imprisoned Mothers, letters from the African National Prison Solidarity Committee, information advertising the Women in Southern Prisons conference, and a press release from Lambda Legal Defense Fund [box/folder 16.12] addressing the difficulties some federal prisoners faced receiving women’s or gay periodicals. While some feminist scholars have drawn firm distinctions between radical politics and cultural politics, the lives of ALFA members demonstrate how fluid that boundary could be. Files pertaining to ALFA pioneer Vicki Gabriner illustrate this dynamic. The Brooklyn-born Gabriner came to Atlanta after spending the 1960s working for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. After coming out as a lesbian, she joined other ALFA members in lobbying the Georgia state legislature to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The FBI arrested Gabriner in 1973 for an infraction related to her work as a member of the Weathermen (a revolutionary group spun off from Students for a Democratic Society, the main white student movement of the 1960s) while she resided in an ALFA home. Subsequent files include newspaper clippings and other updates of the progress on her case, as well as fundraising letters and advertisements for benefit concerts held to defray her legal costs. While Gabriner engaged in this legal battle during the mid-1970s, she played on ALFA’s softball team and wrote to WomenSports magazine urging improvement of their coverage of lesbians [box/folder 13.15]. The media files record her active participation in the coalition ALFA formed with area gay men to lobby for greater coverage and more positive representations of the lesbian and gay community in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution—and the hostile resistance from the newspapers’ management [box/folder 2.21]. Gabriner also wrote on occasion for the gay press, helping create an alternative media and give voice to issues rarely if ever covered by mainstream journalists. One such article is her 1979 interview with Susan Freundlich published in Gay Community News discussing connections between the women’s and deaf communities, addressing topics such as Freundlich’s work providing sign language interpretation at women’s music concerts [box/folder 14.5]. Over the last third of the twentieth century, the United States and the international community witnessed epochal transformations in the politics and culture of gender and sexuality. Those shifts are as fundamental as silicon to the networks that tie us together in a global knowledge economy, but their histories can be ephemeral as the electrons that run through the fiber-optics

xx cables crisscrossing the planet. The microfilm edition of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Archives preserves an invaluable cross-section of those developments and will be essential to scholars writing these histories for generations to come.

--Ian Lekus, Duke University

1. James T. Sears, Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000), p. 110. Historical material on the Atlanta lesbian-feminist community drawn from Sears’s work and from Saralyn Chesnut and Amanda C. Gable, “‘Women Ran It’: Charis Books and More and Atlanta’s Lesbian-Feminist Community, 1971-1981,” in John Howard (ed.), Carryin’ On in the Lesbian and Gay South (New York: New York University Press, 1997), pp. 241-284. Both works draw upon the ALFA Archives for original source material.

xxi EDITORIAL NOTE

Documents from the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Archives, ca. 1972-1994, from the holdings of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, will be published in four parts. This collection guide contains a detailed description of the first three parts, as well as a full introduction to it. A collection guide to the fourth part, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Periodical Collection, which describes that collection in detail, will also be published with the microfilm edition of that portion of the collection. FORMAT This guide lists materials in the order in which they appear on the reels. Materials are arranged on reels according to box and then folder number. The archives are divided into three parts: Administrative Files, Subject Files, and Archives. Part 1, Administrative Files, contains materials pertaining to the daily workings of ALFA. Part 2, Subject Files, consists of (1) material sent to ALFA by local, regional, national, and international women’s, lesbian, and gay organizations and (2) papers, newspaper and journal clippings on issues affecting women, lesbians, and gays. Part 3, Archives, consists of the archives of other lesbian and feminist groups in the Southeast, which were acquired by ALFA’s Southern Feminist Library and Archives. SELECTION PROCESS The selection of materials for the microform edition of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, ca. 1972-1994 collection was based on several criteria: Relevancy Selected materials represent the history and development of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance. Selections emphasize ALFA’s importance to and involvement in the gay and lesbian rights movement, the women’s movement, and women’s political activism. Materials that did not have as their primary focus one of these aspects were generally, although not always, excluded from publication. Research Need Certain materials have not been microfilmed largely because of their relatively low priority with respect to research needs. Examples of such materials include ledger books, telephone logs, bank deposit slips, and postal forms. Format Such artifacts as audiocassettes, t-shirts, and so forth that are technically part of the collection obviously do not fall within the purview of this microfilm collection. Privacy Some materials could not be microfilmed for reasons of confidentiality. In the interest of protecting the privacy of individuals, a concerted effort was made to exclude records that contained people’s home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, or personal financial information.

xxii RECORDING UNFILMED MATERIALS Description entries for all unmicrofilmed folders appear in this collection guide. The entry is marked Not Microfilmed. These materials are, however, available to researchers who use the collection on site at the Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

xxiii REEL INDEX

Description START Description END Box Folder Reel Box Folder Reel Administrative Files: General Files, File 1 1 1 Administrative Files: General 1 16 1 lists for library files Files, Grants- Reference info Administrative Files: General Files, 1 17 2 Administrative Files: General 1 30 2 Grants- Sources/Application Forms Files, 110th birthday bash Administrative Files: General Files, 1 31 3 Administrative Files: 2 21 3 Other ALFA Birthday Celebrations Committees, Bird's Coverage of ALFA and Lesbian Activities Administrative Files: Committees, 2 23 4 Administrative Files: 3 3 4 Media Correspondence: Radio, TV Correspondence To ALFA, Stations 1973-1974 Individuals Administrative Files: Correspondence 3 4 5 Administrative Files: 3 10 5 To ALFA, 1973-1974 Groups Correspondence To ALFA, 1980 Groups Administrative Files: Correspondence 3 11 6 Administrative Files: 3 21 6 To ALFA, 1981 Individuals Correspondence To ALFA, 1986 Individuals Administrative Files: Correspondence 3 22 7 Administrative Files: Indexing 4 4 7 To ALFA, 1986 Rosemary Curb Project, Periodicals Administrative Files: Indexing Project, 4 5 8 Administrative Files: Atalanta 6 2 8 Subject Authenticity List (ALFA Newsletter), 1973- 1994 (22 Folders), 1974 Administrative Files: Atalanta (ALFA 6 3 9 Administrative Files: Atalanta 6 7 9 Newsletter), 1973-1994 (22 Folders), (ALFA Newsletter), 1973- 1975 1994 (22 Folders), 1979 Administrative Files: Atalanta (ALFA 6 8 10 Administrative Files: Atalanta 6 10 10 Newsletter), 1973-1994 (22 Folders), (ALFA Newsletter), 1973- 1980 1994 (22 Folders), 1982 Administrative Files: Atalanta (ALFA 6 11 11 Administrative Files: Atalanta 6 14 11 Newsletter), 1973-1994 (22 Folders), (ALFA Newsletter), 1973- 1983 1994 (22 Folders), 1986 Administrative Files: Atalanta (ALFA 6 15 12 Administrative Files: Atalanta 6 19 12 Newsletter), 1973-1994 (22 Folders), (ALFA Newsletter), 1973- 1987 1994 (22 Folders), 1991 Administrative Files: Atalanta (ALFA 6 20 13 Administrative Files: ALFA 7 10 13 Newsletter), 1973-1994 (22 Folders), Meeting Minutes, 1981 1992 Administrative Files: ALFA Meeting 7 11 14 Administrative Files: ALFA 7 23 14 Minutes, 1982 Meeting Minutes, 1994 Subject Files: Local Women's Groups, 8 1 15 Subject Files: Local Women's 8 20 15 Africana Women's Center Groups, Connections (Lesbian Task Force of NOW Atlanta) Subject Files: Local Women's Groups, 8 21 16 Subject Files: Local Women's 8 43 16 Atlanta Nine to Five Groups, Georgia Women's Groups, Misc. Subject Files: Local Women's Groups, 8 44 17 Subject Files: Local Non- 8 57 17 Southeast Women's Activities Woman/Non-Gay, Labor, Union struggles

xxiv Description START Description END Box Folder Reel Box Folder Reel Subject Files: Local Non-Woman/Non- 8 58 18 Subject Files: Regional 9 1 18 Gay, Civil Rights, Anti-Klan Women's Group (See 'Local Women's Groups' For Organizations In the Southeast), Eastern Women's Groups Subject Files: Regional Women's Group 9 2 19 Subject Files: National 9 16 19 (See 'Local Women's Groups' For Women's Groups, National Organizations In the Southeast), Eastern Lesbian Conference (pre- Women's Events and Activities 1991) Subject Files: National Women's 9 17 20 Subject Files: National 9 24 20 Groups, First National Lesbian Women's Groups, National Conference, 24-28 April 1991 Women and Govt. Lobbies Subject Files: National Women's 9 25 21 Subject Files: Third World 9 36 21 Groups, Women's Bureau- U.S. Dept. of Women's Groups, In US Labor Subject Files: Third World Women's 9 37 22 Subject Files: Third World 10 3 22 Groups, In Other Countries Women's Groups, Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography Subject Files: Third World Women's 10 4 23 Subject Files: Film And 10 10 23 Groups, Third World Women and Video, Other Film Catalogs - 'Justice' Non-Gay, Non-Women Subject Files: Film And Video, Other 10 11 24 Subject Files: Archives And 10 15 24 Film Catalogs--Non-Gay, Non-Woman Collections, American Library Association Gay Task Force Subject Files: Archives And Collections, 10 16 25 Subject Files: Resorts, 10 25 25 Archives - Lesbian and Gay Cultural Resorts (Gay and Lesbian) Subject Files: Resorts, Cultural Resorts 10 26 26 Subject Files: Literature, 11 10 26 (Lesbian): Pagoda Bibliographies And Reading Lists, Book Reviews, Movies Reviews, TV Subject Files: Literature, Bibliographies 11 11 27 Subject Files: Literature, 11 18 27 And Reading Lists, Children's Literature Bibliographies And Reading Lists, Authors Subject Files: Publishers, Gay and 11 19 28 Subject Files: Publishers, 11 22 28 Lesbian, Homosexuality - catalogs, etc. Women Publishers and Presses Subject Files: Publishers, Women 11 23 29 Subject Files: Publishers, 12 4 29 Publishers and Presses Reprinted articles and papers. Subject Files: Publishers, Reprinted 12 5 30 Subject Files: Publishers, 12 7 30 articles and papers. Reprinted articles and papers. Subject Files: Publishers, Naiad Press 12 8 31 Subject Files: Merchandise, 12 12 31 Catalogs for feminist and/or lesbian/gay posters, buttons, T-Shirts, jewelry, calendars Subject Files: Merchandise, Catalogs for 12 13 32 Subject Files: Music, 12 18 32 feminist and/or lesbian/gay posters, Michigan Womyn's Music buttons, T-Shirts, jewelry, calendars Festival

xxv Description START Description END Box Folder Reel Box Folder Reel Subject Files: Music, Misc. Music 12 19 33 Subject Files: Theory/Analysis 13 3 33 Festivals (Women), Analysis of the Women's Movement Subject Files: Theory/Analysis 13 4 34 Subject Files: Theory/Analysis 13 12 34 (Women), Women's Movement - Theory (Women), Consumerism and and Origins Women Subject Files: Theory/Analysis 13 13 35 Subject Files: Theory/Analysis 13 18 35 (Women), Socialist Feminism (Women), Lesbianism - Our Ideology - Development Subject Files: Theory/Analysis 13 19 36 Subject Files: Regional And 13 30 36 (Women), Lesbianism - Our Ideology - National Women's Issues, Development Childbirth Subject Files: Regional And National 14 1 37 Subject Files: Regional And 14 6 37 Women's Issues, Children National Women's Issues, Ecology and Women Subject Files: Regional And National 14 7 38 Subject Files: Regional And 14 10 38 Women's Issues, Education and Women National Women's Issues, the Nuclear Family and Women Subject Files: Regional And National 14 11 39 Subject Files: Regional And 14 14 39 Women's Issues, F.B.I./Grand Jury National Women's Issues, Abuse Lesbian Health Concerns Subject Files: Regional And National 14 15 40 Subject Files: Regional And 14 22 40 Women's Issues, Women's History National Women's Issues, Law (Herstory) (includes People's College Law) Subject Files: Regional And National 14 23 41 Subject Files: Regional And 15 1 41 Women's Issues, Women and the Land National Women's Issues, (women's land trusts) Racism Subject Files: Regional And National 15 2 42 Subject Files: Regional And 15 13 42 Women's Issues, Rape and Violence to National Women's Issues, Women Women and Sports Subject Files: Regional And National 15 14 43 Subject Files: Regional And 15 21 43 Women's Issues, Women and Studies National Women's Issues, (Academe) Work: US. Women's Bureau, Labor Subject Files: Regional And National 15 22 44 Subject Files: Gay Groups 15 27 44 Women's Issues, Work: Pro-ERA (Atlanta And Southeast Region), Atlanta Gay Center/Atlanta Gay Coalition Subject Files: Gay Groups (Atlanta And 15 28 45 Subject Files: Gay Groups - 16 2 45 Southeast Region), Atlanta Pride Southeast Regional, Celebrations (LGT - Southeastern Arts, Media and Lesbian/Gay/Transperson) Education Project (SAME) Subject Files: Gay Groups - Southeast 16 3 46 Subject Files: Gay Groups - 16 10 46 Regional, Southeastern Gay Coalition Regional (Except Southeast) (later called the Southeast Conference And National, Sexism and for Lesbians and Gay Men) Racism Subject Files: Gay Groups - Regional 16 11 47 Subject Files: Gay Theory, 16 23 47 (Except Southeast) And National, Coming Out and Parents Directories of Gay Organizations

xxvi Description START Description END Box Folder Reel Box Folder Reel Subject Files: Gay Theory, 16 24 48 Subject Files: Gay Theory, 16 32 48 Discrimination Against and Oppression International Lesbian/Gay of Gays, Incidents of Freedom Day, 1984 Subject Files: Gay Theory, Gays and 16 33 49 Subject Files: Gay Theory, 16 38 49 Justice/Legal Men's Liberation Subject Files: Gay Theory, Gays and 16 39 50 Personal Files of Margo 20 3 50 Mental Health George, ALFA Personal Files of Margo George, ALFA 20 4 51 Personal Files of Margo 20 12 51 Outreach George, Cuba Festival Committee 1978 - Reprint article in "Atalanta" Personal Files of Margo George, DAR 20 13 52 Personal Files of Margo 20 26 52 II (Dykes for the Second American George, Klan Revolution) and Early Women's Union Personal Files of Margo George, Latin 20 27 53 Personal Files of Margo 20 40 53 America George, Lesbian Network Personal Files of Margo George, 21 1 54 Personal Files of Margo 21 5 54 National March on Washington for George, Military-Industrial Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1979 (Local) Personal Files of Margo George, New 21 6 55 Personal Files of Margo 21 11 55 American Movement (NAM) George, Publicity Personal Files of Margo George, Rape 21 12 56 Personal Files of Margo 21 29 56 George, WRFG Radio Station Archives of Other Feminist 22 1 57 Archives of Other Feminist 22 29 57 Organizations: Atlanta Socialist - Organizations: Atlanta Feminist Union, Red cloth notebook Socialist -Feminist Union, w/hand-painted cover, 'AWU' plus anhk Dialogue, 1:9, April symbol: contains flyers for Atlanta 1982[New Orleans] Women's Union events Archives of Other Feminist 22 30 58 Archives of Other Feminist 22 57 58 Organizations: Atlanta Socialist - Organizations: Atlanta Feminist Union, Fair Measure: Socialist -Feminist Union, Newsletter of Southerners for Economic Resources for Community Justice, 6:1, Fall 1983 Change: "Gonna Rise Again! Economic Organizing for Hard Times," 1976 (3 copies) Archives of Other Feminist 22 58 59 Archives of Other Feminist 23 48 59 Organizations: Atlanta Socialist - Organizations: Orchid Feminist Union, School of Labor and Productions/Lucina's Music, Industrial Relations and the Libraries, Kay Gardner Michigan State University: "Women in American Labor History, 1825-1935: An Annotated Bibliography" by Martha Jane Soltow, Carolyn Forché, and Murray Massre Archives of Other Feminist 23 49 60 Archives of Other Feminist 23 98 60 Organizations: Orchid Organizations: Orchid Productions/Lucina's Music, Gayle Productions/Lucina's Music, Marie Production Companies/Notes Archives of Other Feminist 23 99 61 Archives of Other Feminist 25 1 61 Organizations: Orchid Organizations: WRFG Files,

xxvii Description START Description END Box Folder Reel Box Folder Reel Productions/Lucina's Music, Arts and Women Publicity/Public Relations Archives of Other Feminist 25 2 62 Archives of Other Feminist 25 16 62 Organizations: WRFG Files, Arts Organizations: WRFG Files, ERA, Georgia Archives of Other Feminist 25 17 63 Archives of Other Feminist 25 27 63 Organizations: WRFG Files, ERA and Organizations: WRFG Files, Equal Rights Labor Archives of Other Feminist 25 28 64 Archives of Other Feminist 25 35 64 Organizations: WRFG Files, Lesbian Organizations: WRFG Files, Issues (Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Political Feminism, and Alliance Newsletters) Women and the Military Archives of Other Feminist 25 36 65 Archives of Other Feminist 29 1 65 Organizations: WRFG Files, Politics Organizations: WRFG Files, WRFG Women's Forum Archives of Other Feminist 29 2 66 Archives of Other Feminist 29 11 66 Organizations: WRFG Files, WRFG Organizations: WRFG Files, Women's Forum HerSay: A Women's News Service: 07/25/1988- 11/14/1988 Archives of Other Feminist 29 12 67 Archives of Other Feminist 29 33 67 Organizations: WRFG Files, HerSay: A Organizations: Southern Women's News Service: 11/21/1988- Women's Music And Comedy 03/20/1989 Festival [See Also Box 7], Southern Women's Music and Comedy Festival, 1988

xxviii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The project would not have been possible without assistance from many individuals. Primary Source Media wishes to thank Nathalie Duval, who first recognized the value of this collection; Amy Leigh, Assistant Director of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s Studies at Duke University, for her commitment to making these historical resources widely available and for overseeing the preparation of materials by student aides for filming; Linda McCurdy, Director of Research Services at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke, for her assistance in supervising the scanning of the collection; Ian Lekus, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University who provided insight into the collection for the staff of Primary Source Media, wrote the introduction to the collection, and updated the ALFA timeline; the host of student aides at Duke for their diligent preparation of materials for scanning; the staff of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke for their assistance and cooperation, which made examination of the materials go smoothly; Barbara Rader, who served as Primary Source Media’s editorial manager of the project; Barbara Pandaru, who keyed the finding aid, the first step in the creation of the collection guide; the PSM manufacturing staff, including JoAnn Lebel, Colleen Mullin, Susan Schaaf, and the staff of Active Data Services and Image Graphics.

xxix Box Folder Folder Name

Administrative Files General Files ______1 001 File lists for library files ______1 002 Foremothers ______1 003 ALFA Members Past and Present ______1 004 Elizabeth (Betty) Irwin Burdette, 1919-1988 Notes: Press clippings on individual members. ______1 005 Vicki Gabriner, 1942- ______1 006 Pamela Jo Martin, 1945-1989 ______1 007 Activities ______1 008 Activity flyers Notes: Announcements of progressive events sent to ALFA; correspondence from ALFA regarding fundraising projects; newsletters, benefit announcements, press releases, all in no chronological order. ______1 009 Great SE Lesbian Conference ______1 010 Take Back our Rights [12/15/91] ______1 011 ALFA Cat Show Notes: See also photographs in Box 19. ______1 012 Potluck Dinner Discussion, 1/85: 'Is ALFA a feminist organization?' Notes: Audio cassette and revised "Statement of Being" resulting from discussion. ______1 013 Raffle ticket originals ______1 014 Book collection and review assignments ______1 016 Grants- Reference info ______1 017 Grants- Sources/Application Forms ______1 018 Grants- Fundraising ______1 019 Herstory of ALFA Notes: Includes ALFA lesbian timeline. ______1 021 Incorporation: "An initial study for the ALFA to determine the feasibility of incorporation as a non-profit" ______1 022 Originals of forms ______1 023 Post Office

1 Box Folder Folder Name

______1 025 Questionnaires sent to ALFA from other organizations ______1 027 ALFA Resource List for Volunteers ______1 028 1973 ALFA Survey Notes: Sent to members and/or affiliates in order to establish stronger direction. ______1 030 110th birthday bash Notes: See also Box 19 and oversize folders for photographs. ______1 031 Other ALFA Birthday Celebrations ______1 032 ALFA Lesbian Timeline ______

Administrative Files Committees ______2 001 Misc. ______2 002 Boogiewimmin (social committee) (1 folder, which also contains 1 red divided notebook) ______2 003 Boogiewimmin- Misc. Social Events ______2 004 Boogiewimmin- Birthday ______2 005 Boogiewimmin- Azalea Dance ______2 007 Fund for Southern Communities ______2 010 House renovations ______2 011 Speaker's Bureau Notes: Questions for ALFA speakers. ______2 012 Speaker's Bureau Packet ______2 013 Library Notes: See also SFLA files, Box 5. ______2 014 Library Directory Listings of ALFA ______2 015 Library Mail Answered and Waiting for Reply ______2 016 Library Newsletter ______2 017 Library Reading List ______2 018 Media Notes: See also "Media" subject files, Box 11.

2 Box Folder Folder Name

______2 019 Media Resource Addresses ______2 020 Media How-to's ______2 021 Bird's Coverage of ALFA and Lesbian Activities Notes: The Great Speckled Bird is/was a weekly publication of the Atlanta Cooperative News Project. Folder comprises mostly clippings and a couple of complete issues. ______2 023 Media Correspondence: Radio, TV Stations Notes: Comprises letters from ALFA, mostly protesting depictions of lesbians and gays in film and television. ______2 024 ALFA ( Journal/Constitution ) Notes: Includes originals and copies of correspondence from ALFA, to the two Atlanta newspapers, protesting the lack of coverage of ALFA events and gay/lesbian issues in particular; correspondence to ALFA, from the two newspapers in response. ______2 025 New Member Packet Notes: Includes house and key rules, description of ALFA library and archive and a list of committees. ______2 026 'Old' New Member Packet ______2 027 Originals for Prospective Member Packet ______2 028 Atalanta Women's Directory ______2 030 Membership Forms ______2 031 Pledge Forms, Blank ______2 036 Newsletter ( Atalanta ) ______2 037 Artwork ______2 038 Return to Artist ______2 039 Checklist ______2 040 Covers ______2 041 Leftover Stuff ______2 042 Production

3 Box Folder Folder Name

Administrative Files Staff Person/Intern ______2 046 Staff Person 82-3 Notes: Details duties of the outreach coordinator. See also Box 2 folder for Outreach Coordinator. ______2 047 'Staff Program to Date December 6, 1981' Notes: Lists accomplishments to date and planning for different committees, such as Speaker's Bureau, Jewish Cultural workshop, and New Members workshop.

Administrative Files Correspondence To ALFA ______3 001 1970s ______3 002 1973-1974 Notes: Each year or group of years is subdivided into two categories: correspondence from individuals; correspondence from groups. There is also a file containing the letters of an individual named Rosemary Curb in the Individual section of 1986. ______3 003 1973-1974 Individuals ______3 004 1973-1974 Groups ______3 005 1975-1976 Individuals ______3 006 1975-1976 Groups ______3 007 1977-1979 Individuals ______3 008 1977-1979 Groups ______3 009 1980 Individuals ______3 010 1980 Groups ______3 011 1981 Individuals ______3 012 1981 Groups ______3 013 1982 Individuals ______3 014 1982 Groups ______3 015 1983 Individuals ______3 016 1983 Groups ______3 017 1984 Individuals ______3 018 1984 Groups

4 Box Folder Folder Name

______3 019 1985 Individuals ______3 020 1985 Groups ______3 021 1986 Individuals ______3 022 1986 Rosemary Curb ______3 023 1986 Groups ______3 024 1987 Individuals ______3 025 1987 Groups ______3 026 1988 Individuals ______3 027 1988 Groups ______3 028 1989 Individuals ______3 029 1989 Groups ______3 030 1990 Individuals ______3 031 1990 Groups ______3 032 1991 Individuals ______3 033 1991 Groups ______3 034 1992 Individuals ______3 035 1992 Groups ______3 036 1993-1994 Correspondence

Administrative Files Indexing Project ______4 001 Lesbian Indexing Project ______4 002 How To & Subject List ______4 003 Correspondence with Claire ______4 004 Periodicals ______4 005 Subject Authenticity List

5 Box Folder Folder Name

Administrative Files Periodicals/Subscriptions ______4 006 Subscription correspondence from ALFA ______4 007 Exchange agreements ______4 008 Exchange requests ______4 009 Inventory (1 red spiral notebook)

Administrative Files Southern Feminist Library & Archives (SFLA) ______5 001 Board of Directors ______5 002 Correspondence to SFLA re: fundraising ______5 003 Fundraising ______5 004 Grant submitted to the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights ______5 005 House ______5 006 Legal Documents (bylaws and incorporation) ______5 007 Newsletter ______5 008 Posters ______5 009 Statement of Purpose ______5 010 Stationery Notes: (This folder/box was not microfilmed.)

Administrative Files Atalanta (ALFA Newsletter), 1973-1994 ______6 000 ATALANTA (ALFA Newsletter), 1973-1994 (22 folders) Notes: [not an actual folder- left as placeholder] (This folder/box was not microfilmed.) ______6 001 1973 ______6 002 1974 ______6 003 1975 ______6 004 1976 ______6 005 1977

6 Box Folder Folder Name

______6 006 1978 ______6 007 1979 ______6 008 1980 ______6 009 1981 ______6 010 1982 ______6 011 1983 ______6 012 1984 ______6 013 1985 ______6 014 1986 ______6 015 1987 ______6 016 1988 ______6 017 1989 ______6 018 1990 ______6 019 1991 ______6 020 1992 ______6 021 1993 ______6 022 1994

Administrative Files Alfa Meeting Minutes ______7 001 October- December, 1972 ______7 002 1973 ______7 003 1974 ______7 004 1975 ______7 005 1976 ______7 006 1977 Notes: No January.

7 Box Folder Folder Name

______7 007 1978 ______7 008 1979 ______7 009 1980 ______7 010 1981 ______7 011 1982 ______7 012 1983 ______7 013 1984 ______7 014 1985 ______7 015 1986 ______7 016 1987 Notes: No October. ______7 017 1988 ______7 018 1989 Notes: No January. ______7 019 1990 Notes: No November. ______7 020 1991 ______7 021 1992 ______7 022 1993 ______7 023 1994 Notes: Includes last newsletter.

Subject Files Local Women's Groups ______8 001 Africana Women's Center ______8 002 Aid to Imprisoned Mothers ______8 003 Amazons Softball ______8 004 Atlanta Center for Feminist Studies ______8 005 Atlanta Feminist Women's Chorus ______

8 Box Folder Folder Name

8 006 Atlanta Lesbian Agenda Conference (1/90) Notes: See also "National Lesbian Conference" files in Box 9. ______8 007 Atlanta Women's Art Collective, Inc. ______8 008 Atlanta Women's Coffeehouse and Granny May Productions ______8 009 Atlanta Women's Liberation Group ______8 010 Task Force on Battered Women ______8 011 Feminist Women's Health Center ______8 012 GERA (Georgians for the Equal Rights Amendment) ______8 013 HEART (Health, Education and Art) Women's Center of Atlanta ______8 014 Karuna Atlanta Women's Counseling Collective ______8 015 LEAP (Lesbians for Empowerment, Action and Politics) ______8 016 Lucina's Music Notes: See also Box 24. ______8 017 Matrix Music ______8 018 National Black Women's Health Project Notes: Headquartered in Atlanta. ______8 019 NOW Atlanta ______8 020 Connections (Lesbian Task Force of NOW Atlanta) ______8 021 Atlanta Nine to Five ______8 022 Orchid Productions Notes: See also Boxes 23-24. ______8 023 Red Dyke Theater ______8 024 Sisters ______8 025 SE Lesbian Network ______8 026 SE Women's Studies Association ______8 027 Spelman: Women's Research and Resource Center ______8 028 Womansong Theater ______8 029 Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) ______8 030 Women of Wisdom (WOW)

9 Box Folder Folder Name

______8 031 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Notes: See also "International Women"s Groups," Box 9. ______8 032 Women's Studies Association, Atlanta ______8 033 YWCA Atlanta ______8 034 Atlanta Lesbian Bars ______8 035 Atlanta Lesbian Events ______8 036 Atlanta Lesbian Theater Groups ______8 037 Atlanta Lesbian Readings ______8 038 Atlanta Lesbian Women's Writers ______8 039 Atlanta Women's Activities ______8 040 Atlanta Women's Groups ______8 041 Atlanta Women's Theater ______8 042 Georgia Lesbians ______8 043 Georgia Women's Groups, Misc. ______8 044 Southeast Women's Activities ______8 045 Southeast Women's Events ______8 046 Southeast Women's Groups

Subject Files Local Women's Issues ______8 047 Abortion/Reproductive Rights ______8 048 ERA Notes: See also "GERA" file under Local Women's Groups. ______8 049 Women's Spirituality and Creativity ______8 050 Women in Higher Education ______8 051 Women in History ______8 052 Rape

10 Box Folder Folder Name

______8 053 Self-Defense ______8 054 Peace Movement ______8 055 Women and Work

Subject Files Local Non-Woman/Non-Gay ______8 056 Little 5 Points Groups and Activities ______8 057 Labor, Union struggles ______8 058 Civil Rights, Anti-Klan Notes: Includes 1982 Special Report, "The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism and Violence," published by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and "A Non-Violent Action Manual," by William Moyer, published by New Society Press, 1977. ______8 059 Police Brutality (black community) ______8 060 Anti-nuke and Georgia Power ______8 061 Third World Countries' Struggles (South America) Notes: This file pertains only to Atlantans’ efforts on behalf of third world countries. See also "Third World Women's Groups" files. ______8 062 Prisons ______8 063 Political Parties (Socialist, Communist) ______8 064 Nixon and Ford ______8 065 Local non-gay and non-women events misc.

Subject Files Regional Women's Group (See 'Local Women's Groups' For Organizations In the Southeast) ______9 001 Eastern Women's Groups ______9 002 Eastern Women's Events and Activities ______9 003 Lesbian Feminist Liberation (NYC) ______9 004 Eastern Lesbian Groups and Events ______9 005 Midwest Women's Groups

11 Box Folder Folder Name

______9 006 Midwest Women's Events and Activities ______9 007 Midwest Lesbian Groups and Events ______9 008 West Women's Groups and Events ______9 009 West Women's Activities and Events ______9 010 West Lesbian groups and Events

Subject Files National Women's Groups ______9 011 Evangelical Women's Caucus Notes: Includes manifesto and book list. ______9 012 Directories, Lists, Etc. of Women's Groups in the US ______9 013 International Women's Day 1992 ______9 014 Mormons for ERA Notes: Sonia Johnson. ______9 015 National Conference on Socialist -Feminism, Antioch College, 1975 ______9 016 National Lesbian Conference (pre-1991) ______9 017 First National Lesbian Conference, 24-28 April 1991 Notes: Includes press clippings, program, handouts from independent panels, including that of Queer Nation/NY and the history of the conference. ______9 018 National Lesbian Feminist Organization ______9 019 National Lesbian Happenings ______9 020 NOW Notes: See also NOW Atlanta. ______9 021 National Women's Conferences ______9 022 National Women's Events ______9 023 National Women's Groups (Other) Notes: Includes "An Analysis of Sacaris, Inc.," by the August 7th Survival Community, a radical offshoot of Sacaris, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; "Womanhood in America, 1776-1976," a publication of the Northwest Georgia Girl Scout Council. ______9 024 National Women and Govt. Lobbies

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______9 025 Women's Bureau- U.S. Dept. of Labor ______9 026 Women's Bureau- U.S. Dept. of Labor ______9 027 National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) ______9 028 NWPC Conference, 6/29/85, Atlanta Notes: Includes material about the dance that ALFA and WOW cosponsored. ______9 029 Women's Motorcycle Foundation ______9 030 Women Against Pornography

Subject Files International Women's Groups ______9 031 Canada Women's movements ______9 032 Europe ______9 033 ILIS (International Lesbian Information Service) ______9 034 Women in Other Countries Notes: Includes information on the 3rd ILIS conference in Lichtaart, Belgium, December 30, 1981 to January 3, 1982; the 5th conference In Paris, April 1 to April 4, 1983; and the 8th conference In Geneva, March 28 to March 31, 1986.

Subject Files Third World Women's Groups ______9 035 Atlanta Groups, Activities, etc. ______9 036 In US ______9 037 In Other Countries ______9 038 In Other Countries ______9 039 In Other Countries ______10 001 Black Women and Women's Movement ______10 002 Black Lesbians Notes: Includes biographical fact sheet about ; photocopies of photographs of black lesbians, with handwritten information about each; and a photocopy of the 74-page "Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography." ______10 003 Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography

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______10 004 Third World Women and 'Justice' ______10 005 Dessie X. Woods Notes: An African-American woman convicted on February 12, 1976 of manslaughter and robbery and sentenced to 22 years in prison for the fatal shooting of Ronnie Horne, an armed white rapist. File contains information about case and defense fund. (See also "Third World Women and Justice.")

Subject Files Film And Video ______10 006 Film and Video Information ______10 007 Lesbian/Gay Film Catalogs ______10 008 Lesbian/Gay Film Catalogs ______10 009 Third World Film Catalogs ______10 010 Other Film Catalogs - Non-Gay, Non-Women ______10 011 Other Film Catalogs--Non-Gay, Non-Woman ______10 012 Women's Film Catalogs

Subject Files Theater ______10 013 Feminist Theater, Arts, Etc.

Subject Files Archives And Collections ______10 014 Straight Archives/Gay Subgroups ______10 015 American Library Association Gay Task Force Notes: See also Box 16, under "Gay Groups (Regional and National)." ______10 016 Archives - Lesbian and Gay ______10 017 Lesbian Herstory Archives ______10 018 Third World Women's Archives ______10 019 Women's History Research Center ______10 020 Atlanta Ad Hoc Committee for the Preservation of Atlanta's Lesbian and Gay History ______10 021 National Council for Research on Women

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______10 022 Women's Libraries and Collections

Subject Files Resorts ______10 023 Women's Tours and Trips ______10 024 Women's Yellow Pages - Massachusetts ______10 025 Cultural Resorts (Gay and Lesbian) ______10 026 Cultural Resorts (Lesbian): Pagoda

Subject Files Grants ______10 027 Granting Sources Notes: See also Box 1. ______10 028 Grant Writing

Subject Files Media ______11 001 Photography ______11 002 Tips in Dealing with the Media ______11 003 NGTF (National Gay Task Force) Media Notes: Press Releases; see also Box 16, under "Gay Groups (Regional and National)." ______11 004 Radio and Cable TV: Women and Gay ______11 005 Misc. Journal/Constitution articles concerning women ______11 006 Atlanta Journal/Constitution Coverage - General ______11 007 Women and The Media - Advertising ______11 008 Women's Forums, Dialogues, and Speeches

Subject Files Literature, Bibliographies And Reading Lists ______11 009 Black Women's Bibliographies and Reading Lists ______11 010 Book Reviews, Movies Reviews, TV ______11 011 Children's Literature

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______11 012 Lesbian/Gay Bibliographies and Reading Lists ______11 013 Other Bibliographies (progressive movements) ______11 014 Poetry ______11 015 Sexuality Bibliographies ______11 016 Women Bibliographies and Reading Lists ______11 017 Women and Writers ______11 018 Authors

Subject Files Publishers ______11 019 Gay and Lesbian, Homosexuality - catalogs, etc. ______11 020 Lesbian/Feminist Catalogs ______11 021 Women Publishers and Presses ______11 022 Women Publishers and Presses ______11 023 Women Publishers and Presses ______11 024 Diana Press ______11 025 The Feminist Press ______12 001 Know News, 1973-1976 ______12 002 Misc Flyers Notes: Includes a list of women's rights organizations, presses, newsletters, and special publications. ______12 003 Catalogs and Price Lists ______12 004 Reprinted articles and papers. Notes: Box 12, folders 4 through 7, include over 100 items, includes classics such as Pat Mainardi's "The Politics of Housework," Jo Freeman's "Origins of the Women’s Liberation Movement," Kathi Roche's "The Secretary: Capitalism’s House Nigger," Anne Koedt's "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm," and "Woman-Identified Woman," by the Radicalesbians. ______12 005 Reprinted articles and papers. Notes: See note to Box 12, Folder 4. ______12 006 Reprinted articles and papers. Notes: See note to Box 12, Folder 4.

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______12 007 Reprinted articles and papers. Notes: See note to Box 12, Folder 4. ______12 008 Naiad Press ______12 009 Non-Women/Gay-specific

Subject Files Bookstores ______12 010 Women's and Gay Bookstores

Subject Files Merchandise ______12 011 Catalogs for feminist and/or lesbian/gay posters, buttons, T-Shirts, jewelry, calendars ______12 012 Catalogs for feminist and/or lesbian/gay posters, buttons, T-Shirts, jewelry, calendars ______12 013 Catalogs for feminist and/or lesbian/gay posters, buttons, T-Shirts, jewelry, calendars

Subject Files Music ______12 014 Music Catalogs, Misc. Notes: See also Boxes 22-24, Orchid Productions/Lucina"s Music. ______12 015 Lady Slipper Catalogs ______12 016 Lady Slipper Catalogs ______12 017 ______12 018 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival ______12 019 Misc. Music Festivals ______12 020 Music References ______12 021 Music and Songs ______12 022 Southern Women's Music and Comedy Festival Notes: See also Box 29.

Subject Files Theory/Analysis (Women) ______13 001 Early Women's liberation and 'The Movement'

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______13 002 Women's Liberation Movement Notes: Donated by Donna J. Brogan (then Donna Brogan Ruhl), older sister of Linda L. Brogan (1944-1983), both early feminists in Chapel Hill/Durham Women's Liberation Movement, ca. 1968-1974. ______13 003 Analysis of the Women's Movement ______13 004 Women's Movement - Theory and Origins ______13 005 Women's Theory and Origins: Second Sex Conference, 1969 ______13 006 Radical Feminism - Movement ______13 007 Bisexuality ______13 008 Biology ______13 009 Feminism and Class ______13 010 Feminism and Marxism ______13 011 Imperialism ______13 012 Consumerism and Women ______13 013 Socialist Feminism ______13 014 Right Wing ______13 015 Lesbianism and Art: Theory ______13 016 Lesbian Battering ______13 017 Lesbian Herstory ______13 018 Lesbianism - Our Ideology - Development ______13 019 Lesbianism - Our Ideology - Development ______13 020 Political Strategies Notes: (This folder/box was not microfilmed.) ______13 021 Lesbian Mothers and Other Gay Parents ______13 022 Lesbian Separatism ______13 023 Lesbian Women's Studies

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Subject Files Regional And National Women's Issues ______13 024 African-American Women ______13 025 Abortion ______13 026 Anti-Semitism ______13 027 Women and Adolescence/Menarche Notes: "'Lesson I Bleed': Female Rites of Passage in Adrienne Kennedy's Plays," paper by Rosemary Curb, English Dept., Rollins College ______13 028 Women and the Arts ______13 029 Chemical Dependencies ______13 030 Childbirth ______14 001 Children ______14 002 Consciousness-Raising (women) ______14 003 Contraception ______14 004 Cooperatives ______14 005 Disabled Women ______14 006 Ecology and Women Notes: Including "Anti-Nuke, The Rape of the Land." ______14 007 Education and Women ______14 008 Empowerment Notes: "Women's Empowerment: A Conceptual Framework for Feminist Therapy," dissertation by Susan Elizabeth Barrett, 1980. ______14 009 Fat and Women

______14 010 The Nuclear Family and Women ______14 011 F.B.I./Grand Jury Abuse ______14 012 Government Studies on Women ______14 013 Health Care ______14 014 Lesbian Health Concerns ______14 015 Women's History (Herstory)

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______14 016 Lips: Herstory ______14 017 Jewish Women ______14 018 Mental Health ______14 019 Mental Health: "A Radical Feminist Model of Psychological Disability" ______14 020 International Women's Day ______14 021 Women's Pre-History and Mythology ______14 022 Law (includes People's College Law) ______14 023 Women and the Land (women's land trusts) ______14 024 Women and the Military ______14 025 Older Women ______14 026 Women and the Anti-Nuclear Movement ______14 027 Peace Movement, Women and ______14 028 Women in Prison, Women and the Legal System, Women and Police ______14 029 Women in Politics and Law ______14 030 Women and Pornography ______14 031 Rape Task Force ______15 001 Racism ______15 002 Rape and Violence to Women ______15 003 Religion, Women and ______15 004 Rural Women ______15 005 Self-Defense ______15 006 Self-Exam ______15 007 Sexism and Women's Oppression ______15 008 Women and Sexuality ______15 009 (Hetero)Sexuality and Love ______15 010 Spirituality and Women Notes: See also Religion, Box 9

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______15 011 Sterilization ______15 012 Venereal Disease ______15 013 Women and Sports ______15 014 Women and Studies (Academe) ______15 015 Women's Studies ______15 016 Women and Welfare ______15 017 Women and Work ______15 018 Women and Work ______15 019 Women and Work: Women's Businesses ______15 020 Women at Work: Sex Discrimination ______15 021 Work: US. Women's Bureau, Labor ______15 022 Work: Pro-ERA ______15 023 Work: Pro-ERA ______15 024 Work: Pro-ERA ______15 025 Work: Anti-ERA

Subject Files Gay Groups (Atlanta And Southeast Region) ______15 026 AID Atlanta ______15 027 Atlanta Gay Center/Atlanta Gay Coalition ______15 028 Atlanta Pride Celebrations (LGT - Lesbian/Gay/Transperson) Notes: See also Box 20. ______15 029 Atlanta Men's Center ______15 030 American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia ______15 031 Bet Haverim: A Synagogue for the Lesbian and Gay Community ______15 032 Black and White Men Together ______15 034 First Tuesday (Atlanta) ______15 035 Fourth Tuesday

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______15 036 Gay Liberation Front - Atlanta ______15 037 Gay Nurse's Union/Alliance ______15 038 Integrity ______15 039 Lesbian/Gay Police Advisory Committee ______15 040 Metropolitan Atlanta Council of Gay and Lesbian Organizations ______15 041 Metropolitan Community Church - Atlanta and Others ______15 042 Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns ______15 043 Miscellaneous Gay Organizations and Events in Atlanta

Subject Files Gay Groups--Southeast Regional ______16 001 South Carolina Gay/Lesbian Pride Movement ______16 002 Southeastern Arts, Media and Education Project (SAME) ______16 003 Southeastern Gay Coalition (later called The Southeast Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men) ______16 004 Southeast Lesbian/Gay Health Conference ______16 005 Misc. Southeast Gay Groups ______16 006 Regional Gay Organizations ______16 007 National Gay Groups ______16 008 American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Task Force Notes: See also Box 10, under "Archives and Collections." ______16 009 Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference, 1991 ______16 010 Sexism and Racism ______16 011 Directories of Gay Organizations ______16 012 LAMBDA ______16 013 National Conference of Black Gays and Lesbians ______16 014 National Gay Task Force (News about) Notes: Press releases. See also Box 11, under "Media."

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Subject Files Gay Groups--Regional (Except Southeast) and National ______16 015 National Organization for Changing Men ______16 016 March on Washington, 1993 ______16 017 March on Washington, 1987 ______16 018 March on Washington, 1979 Notes: See also Box 21. ______16 019 Queer Nation

Subject Files International Gay Groups ______16 020 INTERNATIONAL GAY GROUPS

Subject Files Gay Theory ______16 021 Gays and Academics/Higher Education ______16 022 AIDS ______16 023 Coming Out and Parents ______16 024 Discrimination Against and Oppression of Gays, Incidents of ______16 025 Discrimination, Gay: Support Statements Against ______16 026 Gay Domestic Violence ______16 027 General Education about Homosexuals ______16 028 Gays and Primary/Secondary Education ______16 029 Effeminists ______16 030 Gays and Health Care ______16 031 Gay Holocaust ______16 032 International Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day, 1984 ______16 033 Gays and Justice/Legal ______16 034 Gays and Legislation, Current Pro and Anti ______16 035 Gay Liberation, Ideology, Relationship to the Left

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______16 036 Gay Lifestyle ______16 037 Gays and Mainstream Media ______16 038 Men's Liberation ______16 039 Gays and Mental Health ______16 040 Gays in the Military ______16 041 Gays and the Police ______16 042 Gays in Prison ______16 043 Gays and Political Office ______16 044 Gays and Religion (Morality) ______16 045 Gays and Sports ______16 046 Third World Gay Liberation ______16 047 Transsexuality and Transvestites

Subject Files National Non-Gay/Non-Women Groups, Events, Etc. ______16 048 National Non-Gay/Non-Women Groups, Event, Etc. ______16 049 New World Communications

Personal Files of Margo George Personal Files of Margo George ______20 001 Africa ______20 002 Aging ______20 003 ALFA ______20 004 ALFA Outreach ______20 005 Battered Women ______20 006 Boogie Women ______20 007 Briggs Initiative (Proposition #6, California) ______20 008 Capital Punishment

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______20 009 COGE (Committee on Gay Education) Emory ______20 010 Cuba ______20 011 Cuba Festival Committee 1978 - Atlanta ______20 012 Cuba Festival Committee 1978 - Reprint article in "Atalanta" ______20 013 DAR II (Dykes for the Second American Revolution) and Early Women's Union Notes: See also Box 22. ______20 014 Ecology ______20 015 Economics ______20 016 Electoral Politics ______20 017 El Salvador ______20 018 ERA ______20 019 Fat Liberation ______20 020 Fundraising ______20 021 Gay Groups ______20 022 Gay and Lesbian Struggles ______20 023 International Women's Day ______20 024 Iran ______20 026 Klan ______20 027 Latin America ______20 028 Lavender Anniversary - Gay Pride 1979 ______20 029 Left ______20 030 LGT Pride 1982 (Lesbian/Gay/Transperson) ______20 031 LGT Pride 1981 ______20 032 LGT Pride 1981 - Media ______20 034 LGT Pride 1981 - Reorganization Proposal ______20 035 LGT Pride 1980 ______20 036 LGT Pride 1980 - Calendars

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______20 037 LGT Pride 1980 - Press Packet ______20 038 LGT Pride 1980 - Proclamation ______20 039 LGT Pride 1980 - Publicity ______20 040 Lesbian Network ______21 001 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1979 (Local) ______21 002 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights 1979 (Nat'l) ______21 003 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights 1979 (Nat'l) ______21 004 Military ______21 005 Military-Industrial ______21 006 New American Movement (NAM) ______21 007 New Right ______21 008 Nuclear ______21 009 Pornography ______21 010 Prison Women ______21 011 Publicity ______21 012 Rape

______21 013 Reagan ______21 014 Reproduction ______21 015 Resources Organizing ______21 016 Speaker's Workshop ______21 017 Socialist Feminism ______21 018 South ______21 019 Susan Saxe ______21 020 Third World Groups ______21 021 Underdevelopment ______21 022 Wicca

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______21 023 Women's Groups (NOW, etc.) ______21 024 Women - International ______21 025 Women - Miscellaneous ______21 026 Women - Non-Traditional Jobs ______21 027 Women's Union (Atlanta) ______21 028 Women's Union - Action Sheets ______21 029 WRFG Radio Station

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Atlanta Socialist--Feminist Union ______22 001 Red cloth notebook w/hand-painted cover, 'AWU' plus anhk symbol: contains flyers for Atlanta Women's Union events ______22 003 Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspaper clippings, 1973-1974

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Atlanta Center For Feminist Studies ______22 009 Programs 1984-1986

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Atlanta Socialist--Feminist Union ______22 011 Correspondence, Ongoing ______22 013 International Women's Day ______22 016 1-page description of AWU and its purpose ______22 017 "The Atlanta Women's Directory, 1st ed., 1979" ______22 018 file containing copies of letter announcing dissolution of ASFU, August 1981 ______22 019 file containing 'literature,' i.e., broadsides announcing events, films for rental; play scripts; various articles on socialism ______22 020 file containing 'literature,' i.e., broadsides announcing events, films for rental; play scripts; various articles on socialism ______22 021 ASFU Slide Show on Rape ______22 022 Goddard-Cambridge Program in Social Change Notes: (This folder/box was not microfilmed.)

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______22 023 ADA For Your Information (Americans for Democratic Action): April 1982:2; June 1982:3 ______22 024 Blazing Star, May 1979 ______22 025 Breakthrough: Political Journal of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee V.2 No. 2, Fall 1978 ______22 026 Citizen's Voice: Citizen's Party Newsletter, 1:2, March 1982 ______22 027 Council on Battered Women Newsletter Supplement, Spring 1981 ______22 028 Democratic Left, 10:3, March 1982 ______22 029 Dialogue, 1:9, April 1982[New Orleans] ______22 030 Fair Measure: Newsletter of Southerners for Economic Justice, 6:1, Fall 1983 ______22 031 Fight the Right, No. 1, May 1981 ______22 032 The Freedom Socialist: Voice of Revolutionary Feminism 8:1, Fall 1982 ______22 033 Haiti Alert! Friend of Haitian Refugees #2, March 1982 ______22 034 In These Times, 6:12, Feb. 10-16, 1982 ______22 035 Issues in Radical Therapy and Cooperative Power, Winter 1979, #28 ______22 036 NACLA's Latin America and Empire Report, 9:6, September 1975 ______22 037 Liberated Guardian: A National Liberated Publication 2:10, March 1972 ______22 038 Moving On: Monthly Magazine of The New American Movement, Nov. 1977 ______22 039 The People's Crusader 41:13, 20, July 1979 ______22 040 The Prison Newsletter: The Committee for Prisoner Assistance, V. 3, Jan-Feb. 1974 ______22 041 The Progressive: 44:12, Dec. 1980; and 45:5, May 1981 ______22 042 Seven Days: 2:7, May 5, 1978; and 2:12, August 1978 ______22 043 The Southern Libertarian Messenger, 7:12, April 1979 ______22 044 Tricontinental: A Publication of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of -Africa, Asia, and Latin America North American Edition, No. 2 ______22 045 Union W.A.G.E.: Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality. No. 43, Nov-Dec 1977? ______22 046 URPE Newsletter of the Union for Radical Political Economics, 11:5, Sept/Oct. 1979 ______22 047 White Lightning no. 27, May 1974 ______22 048 Workers World: 18:25, June 1976

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______22 049 The Christic Institute: "Nicaragua: A Look at the Reality" 1985 ______22 050 The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, Cornell University, May 1970: "Twelve Questions on Vietnam" ______22 051 Foreign Languages Press, The People's Republic of China: Peking, 1972: "New Women in New China" ______22 052 "Girón: First Great Defeat of Imperialism in America" ______22 053 International Socialists publication: "The American Working Class in Transition," Kim ______22 054 Merit Publishers, "The Marxist Theory of the State," Ernest Mandel, 1969 ______22 055 New American Movement ______22 056 New England Free Press ______22 057 Resources for Community Change: "Gonna Rise Again! Economic Organizing for Hard Times," 1976 (3 copies) ______22 058 School of Labor and Industrial Relations and The Libraries, Michigan State University: "Women in American Labor History, 1825-1935: An Annotated Bibliography" by Martha Jane Soltow, Carolyn Forché, and Murray Massre ______22 059 Socialist Workers (campaign literature) ______22 060 URPE: Union for Radical Political Economics: "Reading Lists in Radical Political Economics," V. 3, Winter 1977

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Dykes for the Second American Revolution (Dar Ii) ______22 061 DYKES FOR THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION (DAR II) Notes: See also Box 20.

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Orchid Productions/Lucina's Music ______23 001 Margie Adam ______23 002 Advertising Information ______23 003 Linda Allen ______23 004 Alive ______23 005 Amber Moon Productions, Inc. ______23 006 Berkeley Women's Music Collective

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______23 007 Birds of a Feather ______23 008 Joan E. Biren (JEB) ______23 009 Black Lesbian Organizations and Issues of Concern ______23 010 The Blatant Image ______23 011 Nancy Brooks ______23 014 Catalogs ______23 015 Charis Brooks and More, Inc. ______23 016 Chocolate Waters ______23 017 Meg Christian ______23 018 Ginni Clemmens ______23 019 Kate Clinton ______23 020 Coffee Houses ______23 021 Tee Corinne ______23 022 Cultural Affairs, Dept. of, City of Atlanta ______23 023 Dancers/Dance Companies ______23 024 Nancy Day ______23 025 The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago ______23 027 Directories ______23 028 Alix Dobkin ______23 029 East Coast Regional Producers Network ______23 030 ECA/ACES (Educational Center for the Arts) ______23 031 Therese Edell ______23 032 The Ends of Means Committee ______23 033 The Fabulous Scallion Sisters ______23 034 Fallen Woman Productions ______23 035 Fallopian Tubes

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______23 036 Fan Mail ______23 037 Femme Films, Inc. ______23 038 Fonda Feingold ______23 039 Maxine Feldman ______23 040 Ferron ______23 041 Debbie Fier ______23 042 Film and Video (Serious Business Company) ______23 043 Cathy Fink ______23 044 Flyer Layouts Original Photo Ready Copy ______23 045 Robin Flower ______23 046 Fulton County Arts Council ______23 047 Fundraising ______23 048 Kay Gardner ______23 049 Gayle Marie ______23 050 Mary Gemini ______23 051 Georgia Council for the Arts and Humanities ______23 052 Goethe Institute (Atlanta-German Cultural Center) ______23 053 Hall Rentals ______23 054 Barbara Hammer/Goddess Films ______23 055 Harsuite ______23 056 Hearing Impaired Organizations and Issues of Concern ______23 057 Barbara Higbie ______23 058 Hotel Accommodations ______23 059 Margaret Hults ______23 060 Incorporation ______23 061 Izquierda Ensemble

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______23 062 Laurie James ______23 063 Jasmine ______23 064 Jewish Lesbian Organizations and Issues of Concern ______23 065 Layout and Printing Info ______23 066 Lesbian/Gay/Transperson Pride Committee (Atlanta) ______23 067 Lights and Sound ______23 068 Diane Lindsay ______23 069 Lucina's Music - Dissolution of ______23 070 Ruth Mackenzie ______23 071 Karen Mackay ______23 072 Matrix Music ______23 073 Magnolia Productions ______23 074 Mailing List Literature ______23 075 Medusa Music ______23 076 June Millington ______23 077 Miscellaneous Performers ______23 078 Mischief ______23 079 Charlie Murphy ______23 080 Sharon Murphy ______23 081 Music Festivals ______23 082 Amina Claudine Myers ______23 083 Naiad Press ______23 084 National Women's Mailing List Notes: (This folder/box was not microfilmed.) ______23 085 Holly Near ______23 086 New Woman Press ______23 087 Nexus, Inc.

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______23 088 NightRainbow ______23 089 NOW ______23 090 Olivia Records ______23 091 Organizations, Current Newsletters, Etc. ______23 092 Other Voices Theater ______23 093 Michelle Parkerson ______23 094 People's Art Action ______23 095 Janice Perry (aka 'Gal') ______23 096 Sue Petersen ______23 097 Pici ______23 098 Production Companies/Notes ______23 099 Publicity/Public Relations ______23 100 Forms - Printed/Xeroxed Extras ______23 101 Judy Reagan ______23 102 Ann Reed ______23 103 Reel World String Band ______24 002 Roadwork, Inc. ______24 003 Beth Scalet ______24 004 Judith Schwarz ______24 005 Suzanne P. Shanbaum ______24 006 Linda Shear ______24 007 Woody Simmons ______24 008 Judy Sloan ______24 009 Jan Smith ______24 010 Phoebe Snow ______24 011 Southern Women in the Performing Arts

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______24 014 Sidney Spinster ______24 016 Sweet Honey in the Rock ______24 017 Theatrical Performers ______24 019 Linda Tillery ______24 020 Adrienne Torf ______24 021 Lily Tomlin ______24 022 TortoiseShell Productions, Inc. ______24 023 Teresa Trull ______24 024 Robin Tyler ______24 027 Nancy Vogl ______24 028 Dede Vogt ______24 029 Mary Watkins ______24 030 Cris Williamson ______24 031 J. Wattles (aka 'Jay Goldspinner') ______24 032 Laura Witzler ______24 033 Cathy Winter and Betsy Rose ______24 034 Elise Witt ______24 035 Beth York

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations WRFG Files ______25 001 Arts and Women ______25 002 Arts ______25 003 Battered Women ______25 004 Books ______25 005 Breasts ______25 006 Childbirth

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______25 007 Children ______25 008 Community Resources ______25 009 Correspondence ______25 010 Correspondence ______25 011 Cultural ______25 012 Day Care ______25 013 Dessie Woods ______25 014 Draft ______25 015 Education and Child Care ______25 016 ERA, Georgia ______25 017 ERA and Equal Rights ______25 018 ERA and Equal Rights ______25 019 Families ______25 020 Feminist Radio Networks (Tape Exchange) ______25 021 Georgia Women's Political Caucus ______25 022 Health ______25 023 Health and Women Notes: See also "Breasts." ______25 024 History (Herstory) ______25 025 International Women's Day, 3/8/75 ______25 026 Intros ______25 027 Labor ______25 028 Lesbian Issues (Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Newsletters) ______25 029 Lesbian Issues (Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance Newsletters) ______25 030 Lesbian Rights ______25 031 Media ______25 032 Miscellaneous

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______25 033 National Organization for Women (NOW) ______25 034 Native American ______25 035 Political Feminism, and Women and the Military ______25 036 Politics ______25 037 Potential News ______25 038 Prisons ______25 039 Prostitution ______25 040 Rape ______25 041 Religion and Women ______25 042 Resources ______25 043 Sex Discrimination ______25 044 Sports ______25 045 Sports and Women ______25 046 Statistics on Women ______25 047 Women for Racial and Economic Equality ______25 048 Women in Other Countries ______25 049 Women's News Services ______25 050 Women's Resources: Community File ______25 051 WRFG Record and Tape Library - Women's Listings (Musical) ______25 052 WRFG Women's Programming - Press Releases, Publicity ______25 053 WRFG Program Guide ______29 001 WRFG Women's Forum ______29 002 WRFG Women's Forum ______29 003 WRFG Women's Forum- Women & the Law Conference ______29 004 WRFG Women's Forum ______29 005 PROGRAM NOTES: "From a Woman's Perspective, #6-9"

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______29 006 WINGS Program Notes ______29 007 KPFA "The Feminization of Poverty" promo, 1984 Notes: See Box 24 for cassette recording of this program. ______29 008 File containing promotional clippings re: jazz artist Judy Roberts ______29 009 HerSay: A Women's News Service: 06/1977-03/07/1988 Notes: Correspondence from 1977 and Program Notes, March 16, 1987 to March 20, 1989 ______29 010 HerSay: A Women's News Service: 03/14/1988-06/27/1988 ______29 011 HerSay: A Women's News Service: 07/25/1988-11/14/1988 ______29 012 HerSay: A Women's News Service: 11/21/1988-03/20/1989

Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Womonwrites (Lesbian Writers And Publishers Conference) ______29 013 Womonwrites ______29 014 Womonwrites ______29 015 1979 ______29 016 1980 ______29 018 1981 ______29 019 1981- Materials ______29 021 1982 ______29 022 1983 ______29 024 1984-5 ______29 025 1986 Notes: Contains two audio cassettes: I. Womonwrites Final Circle, 1 and 2; and II. Womonwrites Final Circle, 3 (This folder/box was not microfilmed.) ______29 026 1988 ______29 027 1990 ______29 028 1991 ______29 029 1992

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Archives of Other Feminist Organizations Southern Women's Music And Comedy Festival ______29 030 Southern Women's Music and Comedy Festival, 1986 ______29 031 Southern Women's Music and Comedy Festival, 1986 ______29 032 Southern Women's Music and Comedy Festival, 1988 ______29 033 Southern Women's Music and Comedy Festival, 1988

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