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Papers of Jessie Street, 1914-1968 [manuscript]
Bib ID 1507836
Format ManuscriptManuscript
Author Street, Jessie, 1889-1970
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Access Conditions Available for reference. Not for loan. 
Description 1914-1968 
4.18 m. (31 boxes + 5 folios) 
Summary

1. 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

Biography/History Feminist 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. 
Notes

Manuscript reference no. : NLA MS 2683.

Card index to correspondence available.

Selected items are also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms2683

Cited In

Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; E965

Index/Finding Aid Note Finding aid available (25 p.) in the Manuscript Reading Room, and on the Internet at http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms2683 
Subjects Street, Jessie, - 1889-1970 - Archives.  |  Australian-Soviet Friendship Society.  |  Pacifists - Australia - Archives.  |  Feminists - Australia - Archives.  |  Women's rights - Australia.  |  Social security - Australia.  |  Aboriginal Australians - Legal status, laws, etc.
Occupation Feminists.  |  Socialists.
Other Authors United Associations of Women (N.S.W.)
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MS 2683 Manual Request only from Manuscript Reading Room, 2nd Floor
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