ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

NORTH DAKOTA WOMEN’S HISTORY COLLECTION

COLLECTION: OGL #296

DATES: 1936-1975

SIZE: .25 linear ft.

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: The North Dakota Women’s History Collection was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection. The acquisitions records are unavailable.

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

RELATED COLLECTIONS:

OGL #289, North Dakota Coordinating Council for the Equal Rights Amendment Records
OGL #311, Nita Fox Papers
OGL #312, Ellie Kilander Papers

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The North Dakota Women’s History Collection consists of two audio tapes containing interviews by John B. Davenport of six women’s movement leaders in North Dakota. The first audio tape contains interviews of Donna Chalimonczyk, Aloha Eagles, Nita Fox, Ellie Kilander, Anita Wasik (Branin). The interviews, conducted on October 2, 1975 in Fargo, ND, primarily concern the struggle for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in North Dakota from 1972 to 1975. The interviews also contain information about abortion rights, feminism, the North Dakota Women's Coalition, and the North Dakota Chapter of the National Organization for Women. Also included are lists of questions posed to the interviewees. The second audio tape contains an interview of ND State Representative Brynhild Haugland, conducted on December 2, 1975. Haugland had been active in ND politics since 1936. A transcript of the Haugland interview is also included.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folders

1. List of questions and schedule for interviews
2. Taped interviews
3. Transcript of Brynhild Haugland interview

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