Title:
Program committee files
Description:
The Texas International Women's Year (IWY) Coordinating Committee, also known as the Texas Coordinating Committee, was created by Congress in December 1975 with the passage of Public Law 94-167 (HR 9924) for the purpose of holding state meetings to elect delegates and adopt resolutions that promoted equal rights for women to present at the National Women's Conference, which presented the nationally adopted resolutions to Congress. The Texas Coordinating Committee's program committee was chaired by Judith Guthrie and was responsible for scheduling entertainment, workshops, reaction sessions, and caucus rooms for the meeting, and for arranging to have the Texas exhibit and a photograph album created. The series includes registration packets for the National Women's Conference and the Texas Women's Meeting; five audiocassette recordings of floor interviews conducted at the Texas Women's Meeting; a photograph album (dismantled for preservation purposes); correspondence and photographs for the Texas exhibit at the National Women's Conference; notes about the workshop, reaction session, and caucus room discussions; correspondence about entertainment and exhibits at the Texas meeting; and conference buttons. Additionally, large panels for the Texas exhibit at the National Women's Conference. The records were created in 1977. The photograph album contained letters and photographs from prominent Texas women. Each received a letter inviting her to share her thoughts on "what they hope to see accomplished at the upcoming National Women's Conference in particular and in the remaining years of the International Women's Decade." The letters received are accompanied by a photograph of the writer, though not all writers sent a photograph with their letter. The album includes the letter of invitation and a black-and-white photocopy of a statue honoring pioneer women, which was placed on the first page of the album. The Texas exhibit committee, a subcommittee of the program committee, sent the letters of invitation on behalf of Texas Woman's University, which created the Texas exhibit for display at the National Women's Conference. The folder of material for the Texas exhibit at the National Women's Committee contains mainly press releases about the exhibit. The exhibit was deconstructed when it was received by the State Archives.
Collection:
Texas International Women's Year Coordinating Committee records
Creator:
United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Texas Coordinating Committee
Date of creation:
1977
Citation information:
(Identify the item), Program committee files, Texas International Women's Year Coordinating Committee records. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Arrangement:
These records are arranged topically according to the activities that fell under the program committee's responsibilities, and within each topic they are arranged as closely to how they were received as possible. Some documents are duplicated elsewhere and some were reintegrated after the initial processing.
Size or duration:
0.4 cubic ft.
TARO URL:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/90049/tsl-90049.html
