Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of letters, brochures, timetables, newsletters, news clippings, planning and meeting notes, and collected research material documenting the DES Action Group's planning, purpose, and publicity efforts; its public hearing on DES; and its preliminary application to the American Cancer Society for a grant. It also includes some materials of the local ‘Action Faction’ of the New American Movement, including notes and newsletters documenting its relations with the DES...