Videotape collection of the National Abortion Rights Action League, 1977-1992
Overview
Talk show interviews and debates, news reports, speeches, narrated programs, TV spots, and footage of the 1986 National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) conference and march in Washington, D.C.
Dates
- Creation: 1977-1992
Creator
- National Abortion Rights Action League (Organization)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. An appointment is required before viewing.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright varies from tape to tape; see individual tape descriptions.
Extent
4 linear feet ((4 cartons) plus electronic records)Talk show interviews and debates, news reports, speeches, narrated programs, TV spots, and footage of the 1986 NARAL conference and march in Washington, D.C. Speakers on both sides of the issue cover such topics as rape and incest, federal funding of abortions, morality, sexual ethics, abortion clinic bombings, illegal abortion, the black liberation movement, women's rights, men's rights, the Roe v. Wade decision, and the Reagan era.
NARAL's web site is being captured periodically as part of Harvard University Library's Web Archive Collection (WAX).
History
NARAL is a national lobbying and membership organization which was devoted to obtaining, and later to maintaining, the availability of safe, legal abortions. The initials stood for the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws from the organization's founding in 1969 until 1973, when the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade made abortion legal.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 79-M278--92-M215
These videotapes were given to the Schlesinger Library between November 1979 and December 1992 by the National Abortion Rights Action League.
Processing Information
Processed: October 1993
By: Katherine Herrlich
Genre / Form
Topical
- Abortion services--United States
- Abortion--Government policy--United States
- Abortion--Law and legislation--United States
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--United States
- Abortion--United States--Religious aspects.
- Birth control--United States
- Bombings--United States
- Feminism--United States
- Pro-choice movement--Missouri
- Pro-choice movement--Montana
- Pro-choice movement--United States
- Pro-life movement--North Dakota
- Pro-life movement--United States
- Sexual abuse victims--United States
- Sexual ethics--United States
- Silent scream (Motion picture)
- Teenage mothers--United States
Creator
- National Abortion Rights Action League (Organization)
Subject
- Goldsmith, Judith (Person)
- Seaman, Barbara (Person)
- Title
- National Abortion Rights Action League. Videotape collection of the National Abortion Rights Action League, 1977-1992: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch01197
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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