The West Virginia Feminist Activist Collection

The following post was written and contributed by Lori Hostuttler, Interim Director of the West Virginia & Regional History Center at the West Virginia University Libraries. In 2017, I traveled to Charleston, West Virginia, to meet with Christine Daugherty and a group of women interested in preserving their history of activism and engagement. Christine had

At the Epicenter Once Again: Women’s Reproductive Rights Movement in Dallas

This post was written by Samantha Dodd, Curator of the Archives of Women of the Southwest, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. With the return of reproductive rights to the national spotlight, the number of reference calls and emails to the DeGolyer Library’s Archives of Women of the Southwest has skyrocketed. Reporters, journalists, bloggers, and activists