ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM Catania, member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1973-83, discusses her years in the General Assembly: accomplishments, women's issues, women in the legislature, Equal Rights Amendment, civil rights, and practical politics. She also discusses her years before the General Assembly: family, Chicago, college education in chemistry, the League of Women Voters; and political experiences with sex discrimination in unemployment compensation law. She also discusses her years after the General Assembly: her campaign for Lieutenant Governor; lobbying; and the 1984 Republican National Convention.

15 tapes, 863 mins., 194 pp., plus index Interview by Judy Haynes, 1984 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes, newspaper articles on Catania, and list of her accomplishments.