03376ctc a2200433 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025019001200066035001900078035001700097035001200114040002000126043002100146045001700167100003200184245005500216260001400271300003600285500004400321500004400365506004300409510007000452520123100522530011601753545052901869555012102398600004202519610004202561650003602603650003602639650003102675650003202706650005302738656002102791656002202812710004202834856004902876984001702925150783620040924084154.0920219m19141968xx neng d1 a8763349 9(AuCNL)1507836 9000008763349 91744399 aANLbengdNSL:M au-at---ae-ur---2 bd1914bd19681 aStreet, Jessie,d1889-1970.00aPapers of Jessie Street,f1914-1968h[manuscript]. c1914-1968 a4.18 m.a(31 boxes +e5 folios) aManuscript reference no. : NLA MS 2683. aCard index to correspondence available. aAvailable for reference. Not for loan.4 aGuide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ;cE965 a1. Personal and family correspondence, 1914-1967. 2. Personal documents (1934-1967) and other papers. 3. Drafts and other papers re Street's autobiography "Truth or repose" (1966). 4. Papers re Street's feminist activities, 1916-1968, including the United Associations of Women. Correspondents include Bessie Rischbieth, Irene Greenwood, Linda Littlejohn and Robert Menzies. 5. Material re the peace movement, 1931-1966. 6. Papers re the United Nations, 1945-1966, including material on the UN Commission for the Status of Women. 7. Papers re Street's membership of the Australian Labor Party, attempts to gain election to Federal Parliament and subsequent resignation from the Party because of her refusal to abandon her pro-Soviet stance. 8. Papers re Street's interest in and numerous visits to the Soviet Union. Includes material on the Australian Soviet Friendship Society (1946-1968), the Russian Medical Aid and Comforts Committee (1941-1945). 9. Papers re Women's Forum for Social and Economic Reconstruction (1941-1945); Immigration Advisory Committee (1940s); and National Social Insurance (1930-1952). 10. Papers re Aboriginal rights and race relations, mostly 1956-1968, including the 1967 Aboriginal Referendum. a aSelected items are also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms2683 aFeminist and social activist. Founder, NSW Social Hygiene Association (1915), concerned with informing women about birth control and sex education. Co-founder (1928) and President of the United Associations of Women which lobbied governments on equal pay and other women's issues. Accompanied H.V. Evatt to the United Nations founding conference in San Franscisco (1945) where she successfully lobbied for a charter of women's rights. Unsuccessful candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Wentworth, 1943 and 1949.8 aFinding aid available (25 p.) in the Manuscript Reading Room, and on the Internet at http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms268310aStreet, Jessie,d1889-1970vArchives.20aAustralian-Soviet Friendship Society. 0aPacifistszAustraliavArchives. 0aFeministszAustraliavArchives. 0aWomen's rightszAustralia. 0aSocial securityzAustralia. 0aAboriginal AustraliansxLegal status, laws, etc. 7aFeminists.2lcsh 7aSocialists.2lcsh2 aUnited Associations of Women (N.S.W.)423Finding aiduhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms2683 aANLcMS 2683