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Marjorie
Stern was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 2, 1918. She acquired a
bachelor’s degree in Social Science and Homemaking in 1958 and a Master's
degree in Sociology and Anthropology in 1965 front San Francisco State College.
Before she began teaching at the secondary level, in 1959, she served as
secretary to the National Association of Social Workers in San Francisco and to
the National Congress of Patents and Teachers in Chicago. In 1973 she had been
elected to seven consecutive terms as secretary to Local 61 San Francisco
Federation of Teachers. From 1966 she served as a member of the bargaining
team. She was a part‑time paid AFT organizer in 1966‑1967 and for
short periods thereafter in other cities. In January 1972 Ms. Stern served for
six months as the full‑time Field Representative for the Seattle
Federation of Teachers. After serving as chairwoman of the Ad Hoc Women's
Committee at the 1970 American Federation of Teachers Pittsburgh convention,
Ms. Stern played an instrumental role in the establishment of the AFT Women's
Rights Committee to which she was appointed chairwoman in January, 1971,
serving in that capacity until August, 1974. In 1975 Ms. Stern was made
recipient of the Sacramento Area Council Locals' Academic Freedom Award.
In
addition to her organizing work for the AFT, Ms. Stern served the National
organization for Women as coordinator of the Task Force on Union women from
may, 1973 to November, 1974. Since the Founding Convention of the Coalition of
Labor Union Women in Chicago March 23, 24, 1974, Ms. Stern has represented
teachers on CLUW's National Coordinating Committee and National Steering
Committee.
The
papers of Marjorie Stern were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
in June of 1976 by Ms. Stern
The papers of Marjorie
Stern reflect her work in the AFT, NOW, and CLUW.
Important subjects covered
in the collection are:
Among the correspondents
are: (to be found in
general throughout CLUW and AFT Women's Committee correspondence, respectively)
Part 2: The second section of Marjorie Stern's papers was
received at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in the spring of 1978. As
well as the first part, it was donated by Ms. Stern herself and reflects her
activities both in the American Federation of Teachers and in various women's
organizations, although the largest body of documents encompasses the period
1970‑1977. The second section of Ms. Stern's papers was processed and
opened to researchers in June 1979. A list of Important subjects is provided.
American Federation of
Teachers, 1974 Convention‑‑Selden/Shanker Presidential contest
American
Federation of Teachers' Women's Rights Committee, 1970‑1974
Coalition of Labor Union
Women, Founding Convention, Constitutional Convention
National Organization for
Women, Seattle Equal Employment Opportunity Task Force, Task Force on Union
Women San Francisco Federation of Teachers Local 61, bargaining and strike,
1968
San Francisco State College Strike, 1969
National
Association of Social Workers in San Francisco.
National
Congress of Patents and Teachers in Chicago.
Local
61 San Francisco Federation of Teachers.
Field
Operations for the Seattle Federation of Teachers.
Ad
Hoc Women's Committee at the 1970 American Federation of Teachers Pittsburgh
convention.
AFT
Women's Rights Committee.
Sacramento
Area Council Locals' Academic Freedom Award.
National
organization for Women.
Task
Force on Union Women.
Founding
Convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women in Chicago.
CLUW's
National Coordinating Committee and National Steering Committee.
Affirmative
Action
Children
Care Centers
Coalition
of Labor Union Women
Constitutional
Conventions of the California
Federation
of Teachers, 1968‑1977
Equal
Rights Amendment
Hawaii
Organizing Drive of the American Federation of Teachers, year 1972 (see Box 5,
folder 5)
International
Women's Year, 1975 and 1977
National
Women's Political Caucus
San
Francisco Teachers' Strike (1971)
United
Teacher Press Association
Women
in Education Committee
Women's
Alliance to Gain Equality (Union W.A.G.E.)
Women's Rights Committee
Olga
Madar,
David
Selden
A large amount of
publications has been placed in the Archives' library. A list of these
publications, subdivided by subjects, is located at the end of the guide.
Several personal objects ‑buttons, flags, certificates ‑ have been
placed in the Archives' audiovisual collection. A kit of photographic
reproductions, with the title Women of Greatness in American History, has also
been transferred to that Collection.
Four photographs of the CLUW Founding Convention, one
taped interview have been
placed in the Archives' Audio‑Visual
Collections. Assorted AFT proceedings and
newspaper clippings have in placed in the Archives
Library.
Olga Madar
AFT
Series I, Box 1
San
Francisco Federation of Teachers Local 61, 1967‑1969. Handouts,
newsletters, clippings and other materials relating to the SFFT Local 61,
including handwritten bargaining team notes, strike materials, and settlements,
1967‑69. There is also material relating to the San Francisco State
College Strike of 1969. [Box1]
Series II Boxes 2‑6 AFT Women's Rights
Committee, 1970‑1975. American Federation of Teachers Women's Rights
Committee Materials from its founding. substantial correspondence reflecting
activities in the women's movement in labor and elsewhere. Material on Women's
Committee activities at national AFT Conventions as well as the local level,
publications and articles written by Stern, substantial workshop and conference
materials. [Box2]
[Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6]
Series
III, Box 7 American Federation of Teachers Conventions, 1970‑1974.
Material not directly related to the Women's Rights Committee. Includes
resolutions, officers' reports, clippings, materials relating to factionalism,
particularly Stern's Coalition for a Democratic Union in the presidential run‑off
between David Selden and Albert Shanker, 1974. [Box7]
Series IV, Box 8
National Organization for Women, 1972‑1974. Four folders relating
to the Labor Union Task Force and the Seattle Chapter of EEO Task Force.
Includes newsletters, minutes, correspondence, and resource material. [Box8]
Series V, Boxes 8‑9
Coalition of Labor Union Women, 1973‑1975. Includes conferences
leading up to the Founding Conference, correspondence, proceedings of the
National Steering and Coordination Committees, constitutional drafting
committees and constitutional convention, and related materials. [Box9]
Series VI, Box 9 Miscellaneous California
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, 10/75. one folder containing
materials relating to the workshop "Who Should Own California"?
Sterns' panel discussion notes, bibliography, etc. about "Resturing Work
Time". [Box10]
Part 2- Series I Papers, 1963‑1985 2.5 linear feet
Part 2- Series II Women’s organizations 1972-1985
Series 1: International
and State Teacher Unions' Activities, 1968‑78, Boxes 11‑12.
It
contains clippings, pamphlets, resolutions, statements and other similar
materials related to various women's committees inside of the A.F.T. and the
California and Seattle Federations of Teachers. The statements of various
unions of affirmative action and the Equal Rights Amendment also belong to this
series. [Box11][Box12]
Series II: Women's
Organizations, 1971‑85, Boxes 12‑14.
Clippings,
flyers, proceedings and programs of conferences and workshops not directly
sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, newsletters, and membership
lists of several women's organizations are located in this series. [Box12] [Box13]
Series III: Correspondence
and Personal Papers, 1963‑68, Box 15
In‑coming
and out‑going letters related to both unions' and women's organizations' activities,
drafts of Ms. Stern's speeches and articles, letters and memos concerning the
State Colleges in which she served either as a student or as a teacher.
Contents
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[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6] [Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10]
[Box11][Box12][Box13]
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Series I
1. San Francisco
Federation of Teachers Constitutional Convention 9/12/66
2. San Francisco
Federation of Teachers, Membership and Executive Board draft minutes, 2/68 ‑
6/68
3. SFFT Membership
and Executive Board draft minutes, 6/68 ‑ 1/69
4. SFFT Newsletters,
clippings 9/67 ‑ 2/68
5. SFFT Newsletters,
3/68 ‑ 5/68
6. SFFT Newsletters,
8/68 ‑ 2/69
7. Correspondence,
12/67 ‑ 4/68, 1/69
8. Bargaining team
notes, 1/68 ‑ 11/68
9. San Francisco
Unified School District Superintendent's Agreement 1/25/68
10. Teacher Facility Survey, 4/68
11. Preliminary 1968‑1969
Budget, 5/21/68
12. Salary Schedule, 1968‑1969
13. San Francisco Federation of
Teachers Demands, 1967‑68
14. Personnel Procedures
15. Auxiliary Personnel
16. Class Size
17. Curriculum Development
18. Compensatory Education
19. Health Insurance, Drug Plan
20. Miscellaneous Education Legislation
21. Miscellaneous and undated
material
Series II
1. Ad Hoc Committee
for Women's Rights, 1970 AFT Convention, Pittsburgh
2. women's
Resolutions, 1970 AFT Convention (other resolutions to be found)
3. Women's Rights
Committee, proceedings, recommendations, notes, 1971‑74
4. Resolutions, 1971
AFT Convention, San Francisco
5. Women's
Resolutions ‑ State AFT's 1971‑72
6. Women in
Education Conference, May 19‑21, 1972 Detroit
7. Women in
Education Conference, correspondence
8. Women in
Education Conference, clippings
9. Women in
Education Conference ‑ evaluations
10. Resolutions, 1972 AFT
Convention, St. Paul
11.
Women's
Activities, 1972 AFT Convention
12.
Chicago
Teacher's Union Women's Rights Conference, 11/18/72 –correspondence,
clippings
13. Conference Materials, Chicago
Teacher's Union, 11/18/72
14. Women and Higher Education
Conference May 11‑13, 1973, Boston (conference publications to he found)
I5. Women and Higher
Education Conference ‑ correspondence
16. Women and Higher Education
Conference ‑ evaluations
17. AFT Summer Workshops, 1973
18. Child Care at AFT
Conventions, 1971‑73
19. Women's Rights Committee,
1974 AFT Convention, Toronto
20. Film "Girls at 12",
1974 AFT Convention ‑ correspondence
21.
"Bargaining for
Women's Issues" workshop, 1974 AFT Convention – Correspondence,
notes
22.
AFT Regional Education
Conferences, 1973‑74 Correspondence, agendas
I
1‑5. AFT Women's Rights Committee Questionnaires ‑
4/1/74 correspondence, summary
6. Committee on
Women's Rights in Education, California Federation of Teachers 1972, correspondence,
newsletters
7. Committee on
Women's Rights in Education, CFT 1973, newsletters, etc.
8. Committee on
Women's Rights in Education, CFT 1974 correspondence
9. United Teachers ‑
Los Angeles, Women's Education Conference 12/2/73
10. Local
Women's Rights Committees ‑ Illinois, 1972‑74 11. IV 11 11‑
Minnesota, 1972‑74
12. ‑ Philadelphia,
Washington State
13. Washington
State Federation of Teacher's ‑ Women's Rights Committee Workshop 1/13/73
14. Miscellaneous Local Women's
Rights Committees
15.
Miscellaneous ‑ 2nd National Collective Bargaining Conference,
Bloomington, Minnesota, May 17‑19, 1974
16. Miscellaneous Conference
workshops
17.
Mills College ‑ Beyond Sexism: Educating Women for the Future, Conference
materials 11/9/73
18. National
Institute of Education ‑ Affirmative Action Conference, Alexandria, Va.
correspondence, notes November 15‑17, 1974
II
1. Clippings by or
about Marjorie Stern, 1971‑75
2. "Nixon
Administration and Women" American Teacher, January 1974 ‑ notes,
draft, correspondence
3. "An
Insider's View of the Teachers' Union and Women's Rights" urban Review,
1973, correspondence, reprint
4. "Women's
Rights Report" ‑ American Teacher, columns 973‑74
5. American Teacher
column background material
6. Women's Rights
Committee publications
7. Women's Rights
Materials, 1972‑73
8. Financial
Records, AFT and District, Marjorie Stern, 1970‑75 9‑30. Women's
Rights Committee Correspondence ‑ 8/70‑3/71
III 1‑25. Women's
Rights Committee Correspondence ‑ 9/72‑5/74
IV 1‑7.Women's Rights Committee
correspondence ‑ 6/74‑1975
8.
Women's Rights Committee Correspondence ‑ undated, miscellaneous, notes.
9.
Miscellaneous lists of Women's Groups, Workshop Participants, etc.
V AFT Women's Rights Committee
Questionnaires ‑ 4/1/74 correspondence, summary
6. Committee on
Women's Rights in Education, California Federation of Teachers 1972,
correspondence, newsletters
7. Committee on
Women's Rights in Education, CFT 1973, newsletters, etc.
8. Committee on
Women's Rights in Education, CFT 1974 correspondence
9. United Teachers ‑
Los Angeles, Women's Education Conference 12/2/73
10. Local
Women's Rights Committees ‑ Illinois, 1972‑74 11. IV 11 11‑
Minnesota, 1972‑74
12. ‑ Philadelphia,
Washington State
13. Washington
State Federation of Teacher's ‑ Women's Rights Committee Workshop 1/13/73
14. Miscellaneous Local Women's
Rights Committees
15. Miscellaneous
‑ 2nd National Collective Bargaining Conference, Bloomington, Minnesota,
May 17‑19, 1974
16. Miscellaneous Conference
workshops
17. Mills College ‑ Beyond
Sexism: Educating Women for the Future, Conference materials 11/9/73 National
Institute of Education ‑ Affirmative Action Conference, Alexandria, Va.
correspondence, notes November 15‑17, 1974
1. Clippings by or
about Marjorie Stern, 1971‑75
2. "Nixon
Administration and Women" American Teacher, January 1974 ‑ notes,
draft, correspondence
3. "An
Insider's View of the Teachers' Union and Women's Rights" urban Review,
1973, correspondence, reprint
4. "Women's
Rights Report" ‑ American Teacher, columns 973‑74
5. American Teacher
column background material
6. Women's Rights
Committee publications
7. Women's Rights
Materials, 1972‑73
8. Financial
Records, AFT and District, Marjorie Stern, 1970‑75
7.Women's
Rights Committee correspondence ‑ 6/74‑1975
8.
Women's Rights Committee Correspondence ‑ undated, miscellaneous, notes
Series
III
1. American
Federation of Teachers Executive Council Minutes 8/73‑7/74
3. 1970 AFT
Convention, Pittsburgh ‑ resolutions
4. 1971 AFT
Officers' Reports
5. 1971 AFT
Convention, San Francisco ‑ Progressive Caucus
handbills
6. 1972 AFT
Convention, St. Paul
7. IT it 11 11 ‑
Progressive Caucus
8. It It 11 11 ‑
United Action Caucus
9. 1973 AFT
Convention, Washington, D.C. ‑ Resolutions, State of the Union
10. 1972 AFT Officers' Reports
11. 1974 AFT Convention, Toronto ‑
resolutions, constitutional amendments, delegates
12. 1974 AFT Officers' Reports
13. 1974 AFT Convention ‑
Marjorie Stern's notes
14. 1974
AFT Convention ‑ David Selden/Albert Shanker presidential race ‑
clippings, reprints
15. 1974
AFT Convention ‑ Coalition for a Democratic Union 16. 11 11 11‑
Progressive Caucus, United Action Caucus
17. 1974 AFT Convention ‑
Teacher's Cause, New York State United Teachers
18. 1974 AFT Convention ‑
Miscellaneous caucus material
1. National
Organization for Women ‑ Labor Union Task Force ‑ newsletters,
reports, and 1973‑1974
2. National
Organization for Women ‑ Labor Union Task Force Correspondence ‑ 1972‑73
3. National
Organization for Women ‑ Labor Union Task Force Correspondence ‑
1974
4. National
organization for Women ‑ Seattle Chapter EEO Task Force Minutes 1973‑74
Series V
Box 8
5. Midwestern
Conference of Union Women Leaders, Chicago, June 29, 30, 1973
6. Midwestern
Conference of Union Women Leaders, correspondence, press releases
7.
CLUW ‑
Midwest Planning Committee Chicago, 9/15/73 minutes, notes
8. St. Louis Women's
Labor Conference, 11/17/73
9. CLUW West Coast
Planning Conference 10/72‑2/74
10. East 11 11 11 12/73‑1/74
11. National Conference Planning
Committee 1/3/74
12. Founding Conference, Chicago ‑
March 22‑24, 1974
13. Clippings
14. Resolutions: statement of
purpose, guidelines
15.
CLUW Founding Conference ‑
resolutions: political/ legislative action
16.
CLUW Founding Conference ‑
resolutions: political/ legislative action
17. CLUW Founding Conference ‑
resolutions: affirmative action
18. 11 it 11 IT Women in Unions
19.
CLUW Founding Conference ‑
resolutions: organizing the Unorganized
20.
California Constitution and
By‑laws Committee 12/l/74 ‑ 9/23/75
21. Constitution and By‑laws
Committee ‑ undated drafts
1. CLUW
Constitutional Convention, Detroit, December 5‑7, 1975
2‑4 National Coordinating Committee 5/74‑11/75
5‑6. National Steering Committee 6/74‑9/75
7‑8. Correspondence 7/73‑1976
9. Atlanta Chapter
(including material relating to incident with Olga Madar observance
International Women's Day March 8, 1975)
10. Metropolitan, D.C. Area
Chapter 6/74 ‑ 8/74
11. San Francisco Chapter 10/74 ‑
3/76
12. .1 If It – newspaper
clippings, misc.
13. Seattle Area Chapter 4/9/74 ‑
6/11/75
14. Miscellaneous Newsletters ‑
CLUW Chapters in Baltimore, Denver, Wayne Co.
15. Miscellaneous ‑
Membership recruitment materials
16. ‑ International Women's
Year
17. ‑ Resolutions, leaflets
his handwritten notes, undated
19. CLUW clippings January‑May,
1975
20. Miscellaneous Unrelated Women's
Groups
21. Miscellaneous ‑
California Dem. Socialist Organizing Committee ‑ Workshop "Who
Should Own California?" 10/18/75 Stern panel ‑ "Restructuring
Work Time" notes, bibliography
Papers, 1963‑1985
2.5 linear feet
Accession No. 774 L.C. No.
The second section of
Marjorie Stern's papers was received at the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
in the spring of 1978. As well as the first part, it was donated by Ms. Stern
herself and reflects her activities both in the American Federation of Teachers
and in various women's organizations, although the largest body of documents
encompasses the period 1970‑1977. The second section of Ms. Stern's papers
was processed and opened to researchers in June 1979.
Series 1
International
and State Federations of Teachers' Activities 1968‑78
The papers in this series
primarily concern Ms. Stern's activity in various committees created inside of
the California Federation of Teachers (C.F.T.), and the Seattle Federation of
Teachers for the year 1972. Most of these committees were formed to analyze and
support from inside of the union the broader issued of American women's
movement. A smaller amount of flyers, clippings, resolutions and reports
concern general union activities such as the Conventions of C.F.T. and the
negotiations during the San Francisco teachers' strike of 1971. Statements of
various unions, including the American Federation of Teachers, on affirmative
action and the Equal Rights Amendment are also located in this series. The
correspondence related to these activities is gathered in the Series III of the
present collection; however, letters of transmittal of research papers and
resolutions have been left in this series. A small number of letters related to
the C.F.T. 1977 Convention Workshops and to the United Teacher Press
Association can also be found in this series (Box 1, folder 12 and Box 2, folder
5). Subjects are organized alphabetically.
1.
Affirmative
Action: Commission for A.A. in Universities, 1975.
2.
Affirmative Action:
Research papers and notes, no date.
3‑4. Affirmative Action: Resolutions and Statements,
1974.
5. Children Care
Centers, 1968‑73.
6.
Conventions of
the C.F.T.: 1968 and 1969, Preparatory material.
7. Conventions
of the C.F.T.: 1971, Drafts of Resolutions. 8‑10. Conventions of the
C.F.T.: 1974, Policy Statements
11. Conventions of the C.F.T.:
1975, Policy Statements
12. Conventions
of the C.F.T.: 1976 and 1977, Workshops; programs and rrespondence.
13.
Conventions of the C.F.T.:
1977, Preparatory material and notes.
14. Conventions of the C.F.T.:
1977, Proceedings.
15. Equal Rights Amendment:
Clippings, 1970‑74.
16.
Equal Rights Amendment:
Research papers on legislation, 1967‑76.
17‑19. Equal Rights Amendment: Research papers, 1971.
20. Equal Rights Amendment:
Resolutions and Pamphlets, 1970.
21‑29. Equal
Rights Amendment: Statements on various unions pro or con the E.R.A., 1970‑73.
30. Quest Consortia Workshops,
1974, 1976. Programs and notes.
1. San Francisco
strike, 1971: Text of Agreements.
2. San Francisco
strike, 1971: Clippings.
3. San Francisco
strike, 1971: Flyers, Press releases.
4. San Francisco
strike, 1971: Notes of the Bargaining Team.
5. United
Teacher Press Association: Meetings' minutes and correspondence, 1969‑70.
6. Women in
Education Committee: Clippings, pamphlets 1974‑77.
7. Women in
Education Committee: Membership lists, 1972‑78.
8. Women in
Education Committee: Minutes and notes, 1974‑77.
9. Women
in Education Committee: Resolutions submitted to the C.F.T. Conventions, 1975,
1977.
10. Women in the Labor Force:
Programs of the Seminar, 1973, 1977.
11. Women's Rights Committee:
Pamphlets, no date (ca. 1971‑73).
12. Women's Rights Committee: Research papers and notes, 1972‑73.
13. Women's Rights Committee: Sexism in education and careers, misc. research
papers, 1971‑76.
Series II
I
Women’s organizations
1972-1985
This
series contains clippings, flyers, programs, and resolutions relative to
conferences, meetings and conventions of women's organizations, either outside
of the union movement (like the international Women's Year) or inside of it,
but on a nationwide and intercategorical basis (like the Coalition of Labor
Union Women, further referred to as C.L.U.W.). Two small collections of
newspapers and newspaper clippings, intermingled with Ms. Stern's notes, also
belong to this series. The largest amount of documentation concerns the
International Women's Year. The International Convention of the I.W.Y. was held
in Mexico City in July 1975; eventually a commission for the observance of the
I.W.Y. was created in the United States, with the purpose of diffusing the
results and statements of the Mexican convention. The U.S. committee organized
in 1977 a series of state conventions, among which the California State Meeting
which was held in Stanford in June 1977; the state conventions led to a
National Women's Conference, held in Houston (Texas) in November 1977. The
three conferences (Mexico City, Stanford and Houston) are organized in this
series under the general title of I.W.Y.; general subjects, as for the Series
1, follow the alphabetical order. A small amount of correspondence may be found
in Box 2, folder 26 and Box 4, folder 6. The remaining letters related to the
subjects of this series are filed in the Series III of the present collection.
(Continue I)
14. C.L.U.W.: Clippings, Flyers,
1976‑77.
15. 1977 Convention,
Constitutional Amendment Proposal.
16. 1977 Convention, Programs and
resolutions.
17. Education Committee,
meetings' minutes, 1976‑77.
18. Financial Reports, 1975‑77.
19‑20. National Executive Board, Minutes and notes,
1976‑77.
21. National Officers' Council,
Minutes, 1977.
22. National Executive Board and
National Officers'
Council,
Resolutions, 1975‑77.
23. Officers' list, not date (ca.
1975).
24. State Chapters: California,
Resolutions, 1976‑77.
25. State Chapters: Illinois and
Maryland Resolutions, 1976.
26. State
Chapters: Texas (Houston) Correspondence on the conflict over the chapter's
presidency, 1977.
27.
I.W.Y.: Celebrating Labor
Union Women's History, Marjorie H. Stern, [1985]
28. Mexico City, 1975 Preparatory
material from other nations.
29. Mexico City, 1975:Preparatory
material from the United States Information Center.
1.
I.W.Y.: Mexico
City, 1975: United States Delegation Preparatory material, 1974‑75.
2. Mexico City,
1975: Clippings.
3‑5. Mexico City, 1975: Convention Workshops' Proceedings.
6. Mexico City,
1975: Pamphlets.
7. Mexico City,
1975: Publications commenting the Convention, 1975‑77.
Mexico
City, 1975: Resolutions and Press releases.
9.
Stanford, 1977:
Preparatory material, January‑February 1977.
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