Scope and Contents Consists of material relating to the WUIS/WIPA FM radio program "Skirting Convention: Twelve Women Who Changed Springfield" which premiered on March 8, 2007 and ran on-air for several months; a CD of the program was released on September 27, 2007. The program, authored by Kavitha Cardoza, profiled twelve women who influenced history and worked for social change in Springfield. The file contains background research materials on each of the women as well as a press release and a program that...

Scope and Contents Springfield pacifist, community organizer and professional librarian. Member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Co-founder of the West Side Neighborhood Association, 1977. Minutes, notes, reports, program proposals, newsletters and correspondence of the Central Illinois American Friends Service Committee, 1974-1980, and area committee of the Midwest Regional Office, established in 1972. Documents its establishment as a full-time office in 1976, its...