Reminiscences of Percy Maxim Lee, 1973.

Biographical Note

Former president, League of Women Voters; interviewee married John Glessner Lee

Scope and Contents

League of Women Voters activities in Connecticut, election to National Board, 1942; Office of Price Administration support, 1941; refugee children; Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Foundation, later Overseas Education Fund of League of Women Voters and Institute for Foreign Visitors; relationship of local, state and national Leagues; President, League of Women Voters, 1950-1958: McCarthyism and Freedom Agenda, policy on Brown decision (1954), support for United Nations, relations with State Department; member, College Grants Advisory Committee of Ford Foundation; water management efforts in Connecticut, 1955; reminiscences of family members, including Hiram Percy Maxim; Frances Glessner Lee, police work, "Nutshell Studies"; impressions of Anna Lord Strauss and other League of Women Voters leaders

Subjects

• African Americans--Segregation.
• Connecticut--Politics and government.
• Ford Foundation.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• League of Women Voters (U.S.)
• Lee, Percy Maxim, 1906-2002--Interviews.
• Maxim family.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United Nations.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Office of Price Administration.
• Women executives--United States--Interviews.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980