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Preliminary Inventory of the Faith Holsaert Papers, 1950-2008

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Descriptive Summary

Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Creator
Holsaert, Faith.
Title
Faith Holsaert Papers, 1950-2008
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
5625 items
7.5 lin. ft.
Abstract
Civil Rights and LGBT community activist.
Correspondence, newsletters, publications, and other materials relating to the activities of Faith Holsaert from the 1960s to the present. A large portion of the collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, including SNCC, and the women's rights movement. The collection also has a large amount of personal memorabilia and materials relating to Holsaert's childhood and family. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Collection may contain materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this form before using this collection.
Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.
Copyright Notice
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Faith Holsaert Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
Gift, 2008 (2008-0277), 7.5 lin. ft.
Processing Information
Collection is unprocessed; cataloged from accession records.
Encoded by: Meghan Lyon
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2008-0277
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical / Historical Note

Civil Rights and LGBT community activist.

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Collection Overview

Correspondence, newsletters, publications, and other materials relating to the activities of Faith Holsaert from the 1960s to the present. A large portion of the collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, including SNCC, and the women's rights movement. The collection also has a large amount of personal memorabilia and materials relating to Holsaert's childhood and family. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
List of Series in Collection
Faith Holsaert Papers, 1950-2008
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Detailed Description of Collection

Faith Holsaert Papers, 1950-2008

5 Boxes
The collection has been reboxed, but its original folders and labels have been maintained in order to preserve the original order of the materials. No further processing has been conducted at this point.

Box 1
Correspondence
Childhood: Faith and Shai/Deb, 1950s
Candy Keely/Carole Gordon/Amina
Letters from Writing Friends
To my mother
From James Holsaert
Jan Chapin, 1972-1982
Crosing (Faith and Shai's godparents)
Hillel, Lickert, Celia
From Shai, 1978-1984
Madre, 1960s
Eunice Holsaert, 1970s
Cora, Patricia, and Pauline Holsaert
Charity Bailey
Friends, etc., 1960s
Friends, 1970s   (2 folders)
Friends, 1980s
West Virginia
Appalachia
Recht Dee
Pauley case
Rainbow (WV and SREP)
Lesbian community newsletters
Women's Health Center, 1980-1981
WV Rainbow Univ. Healthcare
Coal Employees project
Hamlet, NC
Gulf Coast Tenants
Guardian
Furniture Workers 282
Box 2
Political Prisoners
Pittston Company
AntiKKK
Southern Org. Committee for Economics and Social Justice
Project South
Unfoldered miscellaneous materials
Sentimental
Correspondence, 1986
Daddy/Betty/Shai
"Cash" Response
Correspondence, 1979
Jan letters
Correspondence, 1986-1987
Miscellaneous correspondence
Correspondence, 1988-1994   (8 folders)
Correspondence, 2001
Cuban coins
Box 3
Correspondence, 1994-1999   (3 folders)
Bibliographic annotations, 1986   (3 folders)
Book reviews, 1988
Bibliographic annotations, 1982   (2 folders)
Summer work archive, 1983
SNCC interview transcript
Chatfield book
Klekotka Master's Thesis
Interviews with Me Archive
Self
Madre
Daddy: appraisals
Daddy: legal and administrative II
Faith and Hillel
Family chronology, 1987 Dec.
Froggy album, 1990 Dec.
Shai
Carmela, 1996
Dance
Box 4
Conspiracy in Coal booklet
Brief of Contestants Urging the Vacating of Seats, U.S. House of Representatives
Brief submitted by the Miss. Freedom Democratic Party
South
SCEF Society
Asbesteosis
Anne Braden
Rainbow SREP
Black elected officials
Center for Democratic Renewal
Christie Institution
Cold War
KKK
Lexington women's prison
Movement support network
NCARRV
Poultry workers
SOS Article
Robeson Co., N.C.
Up and Out of Poverty
SE Project
So Fight Back
SOC Environmental Justice
SOC
SOC Youth
SOC Labor
SOC, 1996
SOC Newletter
SOC Board
"Freedomways" , 1964
"KKK: A History of Racism and Violence"
"Freedom is a Constant Struggle" program
"AmeriKKKa" , 1995
Frederick Douglass
"Mississippi Eyewitness" , 1964
"Life and Times of Frantz Fanon"
Miss., Summer 1964
Miscellaneous unfoldered materials
Miss. Baker Conference, 2000
SNCC, 1988
SNCC
"Revolution in Mississippi"
"Mississippi: Subversion of the Right to Vote"
"Mississippi Summer Project"
"Cracking the Color Line"
Racism
"The Trial of Bobby Seale"
"On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party"
"A White American in an Unwhite World"
"The Angry Children of Malcolm X"
"Position Progress of Black America" , 1967
Southwest Georgia
From friends and family while Faith was in SWGA, 1962-1963
SW Ga. letters
Christian family and others
Harrison thesis
CB King
"Special Report: Albany" , 1962
Scrapbook pages with newspaper clippings
Voter's Registration Drive, 1962-1963
Albany, Ga., newsletter, 1962-1963
Albany, Ga.
Box 5
Women
Off Our Backs: A Women's News Journal, 1980 Nov.
Women: A Journal of Liberation, 1970
The Feminist Art Journal, 1974-1975
Aphra (vol. 5, no. 1), 1973-1974
Quest: Feminist Quarterly, 1975
Woman News, 1980
Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture (No. 10)
Up from Under (vol. 1, no. 4)
Up from Under (vol. 1, no. 3), 1971 Jan.   (2 copies)
Women's Health
Women W. Va.
Lesbian feminist
Socialist feminist
Women and labor
Second Wave (vol. 3, no. 1)
Yale Law Journal: Equal Rights Amendment, 1971 Apr.
"Ramparts" , 1974 Sept.
"Our Bodies, Our Selves" , 1971
Women's Free Express, 1974 Mar.-Sept.   (3 pamphlets)
Southern Voices
Motive: Lesbian/Feminist issue, 1972
The Second Wave (vol. 2, no. 4)
Up from Under, 1971-1972
Up from Under (vol. 1, no. 2)
Women/Coal
Women
Sterilization abuse
Homophobia
Lesbian battery
Feminist Revolution: Redstockings, 1975
"Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement" , 1972
Heterosexuality
Radical/Left
Kathy Boudin   (2 folders)
Left/Marxist
On the Issues: The Progressive Women's Quarterly, 1995
"Two Interviews: Corky Gonzalez and ChaCha Jimenez" , 1970
The Guy Who Controls Your Future
The Communist Manifesto
Hard Times in Detroit, 1971
GE: Profile of a Corporation, 1967
Consumption: Domestic Imperialism
PLP: A Critique
Problems of U.S. Capitalism
They Say, All Women Must Be Commandos
Tierra-O-Muerte
Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
1978 July-Aug.
1979 Mar.
1979 Apr.
1979 July-Aug.
1979 Dec.
Race and Class (vol. 35, no. 2-3)
If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigation and Your Rights
U.S. Capitalism in Crisis, 1978
To Feel Within the Water
Repression and Resistance: An Information Manual
Miscellaneous papers
Black Power: Music of a Revolution (CD-ROM)
Voices of Pacifica (VHS)
Untitled minidisk