Collection Overview
Title: Nita Fox Papers, 1971-1975
ID: OGLMC/311
Creator: Fox, Nita
Extent: 0.75 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 00/00/1975
Languages: English [eng]
Abstract
Active member of the North Dakota Business and Professional Women’s Club, and the North Dakota Commission on the Status of Women. Vocal proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Nita Fox Papers, 1971-1975, consist primarily of materials for several organizations, mainly relating to the Equal Rights Amendment. Fox was an active member in the North Dakota Business and Professional Women’s Club, serving as state president 1972-1973. Materials for this organization include correspondence, resolutions, and notes for a panel discussion on the Amendment. Fox also served as president of the North Dakota Commission on the Status of Women. These contents include correspondence, newspaper clippings, historical materials, and records from the (national) Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women. There are also items for the North Dakota Coordinating Council for the Equal Rights Amendment, as well as several folders of miscellaneous publications and clippings.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions:
Open for inspection under the Rules and Regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.
Acquisition Source:
Nita Fox, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Acquisition Method:
Donation
Related Materials:
OGLMC 495: Business and Professional Women's Club Records
OGLMC 289: North Dakota Coordinating Council for the Equal Rights Amendment Records
Preferred Citation:
(Description of Item). Nita Fox Papers. OGLMC 311, Box #, Folder #. Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections. Chester Fritz Library. University of North Dakota.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Finding aid added to Archon in July 2012.
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Series 1: North Dakota Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
- Folder 1: Correspondence as State President, and legislative correspondence on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1973
- Folder 2: Correspondence concerning BPW member and North Dakota State Representative Brynhild Haugland's vote against the ERA in the 1973 legislature
- Folder 3: Correspondence on the ERA, 1973-1975
- Folder 4: ERA correspondence, newspaper clippings, and resolutions; National BPW Annual Report, 1973 -1975
- Folder 5: State legislative support file, correspondence and related documents; Material on the ERA and discriminatory legislation in North Dakota, 1974-1975
- Folder 6: Handwritten notes for panel discussion on the ERA, Crookston, Minnesota, February 10, 1975
- Series 2: North Dakota Commission on the Status of Women
- Folder 7: History, correspondence and related documents (primarily national), 1972-1975
- Folder 8: ERA pamphlets, correspondence and related documents; Status Report on reactivation of the NDCSW; articles on "roles of women", 1972, 1975
- Series 3: North Dakota Coordinating Council for the Equal Rights Amendment
- Folder 9: 1974-1975
- Series 4: Miscellaneous Equal Rights Amendment Files
- Folder 10: Indexed notebook of ERA related documents, statements for and against the ERA, strategy files, and resource files on the ERA, 1971-1973
- Folder 11: ERA related documents, 1973-1975
- Folder 12: Articles, clippings, and correspondence on the ERA and sex discrimination, 1972 and 1973
- Folder 13: ERA newspaper clippings, 1973
- Folder 14: ERA newspaper clippings, 1974-1975