Inventory of the Judith Hennessee Papers, 1950s-1999

Judith Hennessee Papers, 1950s-1999

Hennessee, Judith Adler

3.5 Linear Feet
2140 Items

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

English.

Collection is open for research.

Researchers may not attribute quotations from transcripts designated "Off" or "Off the record."

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[Identification of item], Judith Hennessee Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

The Judith Hennessee Papers were received by the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as a purchase in 2000.

Processed by Shayla C. Nunnally

Completed June 21, 2000

Reprocessed by Cat Saleeby

Completed October 4, 2002

Encoded by Walt Evans and Cat Saleeby

Updated by Jodi Berkowitz, July 2008

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

The collection primarily contains materials related to Hennessee's writing career and her participation in the National Organization for Women (NOW). Most of the NOW materials concern its 1972 petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny renewal of WABC-TV's license due to alleged discrimination against women in programming and employment. Included are legal documents; information related to NOW's monitoring study of WABC; reports pertaining to ABC and other television networks; and materials concerning the portrayal of women in the broadcast and print media, including several issues of the Media Report to Women newsletter. Other feminist materials include clippings, reports, political buttons and stickers, publications, and printed material, including several issues of the feminist literary magazine aphra and various women's organizations' newsletters. The collection also includes interview transcripts and other research materials for, correspondence about, and both a typescript and a published copy of Hennessee's biography Betty Friedan: Her life. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.