Reminiscences of Anna Lord Strauss, 1972-1973.

Biographical Note

Civic leader

Scope and Contents

Girlhood, New York, N.Y.; CENTURY MAGAZINE; Lucretia Mott and women's suffrage; New York, N.Y. and State League of Women Voters, 1934-43; New York, N.Y. politics; United Aircraft, 1943-44; league positions on Equal Rights Amendment, Tennessee Valley Authority, Civil Service reform, civil rights; Food and Agriculture Organization conference, 1945; National League President, 1944-50; foreign affairs programs; Town Meeting of the Air tour, 1949; atomic energy control; International Alliance of Women; Overseas Education Fund; Freedom Agenda; postwar anti-Communist agitation; President Harry Truman's Commission on Internal Security; United Nations Association; United Nations delegate, 1951-52; Committee for Economic Development; United States Information Agency mission, Africa and Asia; women's position, United States and abroad; impressions of colleagues in government and League. Transcript and audio vary slightly. There is no extant audio for the first two sessions, and there is an additional session from February 14, 1973 that was not transcribed and is audio-only

Subjects

• Civil rights.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Internal security.
• International agencies.
• Interviews.
• League of Women Voters (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Strauss, Anna Lord, 1899-1979--Interviews.
• United Nations.
• United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• United States Information Agency.
• Women's rights.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975