This collection contains the personal papers of Alice Kaige relating to her involvement in pacifist and women’s rights movements and the West Side Neighborhood Association in Springfield, Illinois. It is divided into five series: American Friends Service Committee, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace Movements, Other Activism, and West Side Neighborhood Association.

Series I: American Friends Service Committee, 1969-1978, contains materials relating to the activities of the American Friends Service Committee at the local, regional, and national levels. It contains newsletters, meeting minutes, press materials, notes, and planning papers documenting the establishment of the Central Illinois AFSC office, the Peace Education Committee of the Midwest Regional AFSC, and local efforts to advance the organization’s goals. Arranged alphabetically.

Series II: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1968-1986, contains correspondence, flyers, notes, event information, and a newsletter relating to the local and national activities of the organization. Arranged alphabetically.

Series III: Peace Movements, 1968-1988, contains posters, newsletters, correspondence, flyers and handouts, event information, notes, and articles relating to various peace movements and organizations in the United States in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Subjects include the Vietnam War, conscientious objectors, the draft, and nuclear weapons and disarmament. Arranged alphabetically.

Series IV: Other Activism, 1973-1988, contains materials from various other organizations and causes which concerned Kaige. Correspondence, articles, event information, posters, newspapers, and newsletters relate to women’s rights - particularly the campaign for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, labor activists, racial justice, and political conflict in Central America. Arranged alphabetically.

Series V: West Side Neighborhood Association, 1955-1990 contains correspondence, by-laws, administrative records, questionnaires, flyers, newsletters, slides, photographs, meeting minutes, membership lists, regional studies, event information, and newspaper clippings relating to the West Side Neighborhood Association’s efforts to preserve the residential character of the neighborhood. Subjects include historic house preservation, neighborhood tours, local elections, city planning, and zoning ordinances. Arranged alphabetically.