League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara records, 1948-2015

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Summary

Title:
League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara records
Dates:
1948-2015
Creators:
League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara
Abstract:
Records documenting the activities of the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara, California, from the 1940s to 2015, including administrative files, issue files, newsletters, and clippings and scrapbooks.
Extent:
21 Linear Feet (8 cartons, 11 flat boxes)
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara records, SBHC Mss 2. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

Records of the League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara, California. Dating from the 1940s to 2015, materials document League activities and include both administrative and issue files, as well as copies of the Bulletin and Channel Voter, League newsletters, ranging in date from 1948-2015.

Administrative files include bylaws, correspondence, as well as documents related to League events, fundraising, and finances. Issue files cover state, county, and municipal matters, including oil and gas drilling, energy, the Santa Barbara downtown/waterfront, Santa Barbara County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO), Goleta Valley annexation proposals, equal rights, development, education, elections, immigration, water, state and county bond measures, redistricting, and housing.

These records contain extensive documentation on the City of Santa Barbara charter, including proposed amendments, and extensive documentation relating to the City of Santa Barbara Goleta Valley annexation proposals.

Biographical / historical:

The League of Women Voters was founded in 1920 by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, as a nonpartisan, grassroots political advocacy group. Since then, the League of Women Voters has opened state chapters and local Leagues in many congessional districts. Important issues addressed by the League of Women Voters over the years at the national level have included equal access to education and employment, foreign relations, including normalization of relations with China, tax reform, voting rights and voter registration, campaign finance reform, and health care. The League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara (including the communities of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Goleta, California) has focused on housing and homelessness, oil and gas drilling, land use, equal rights, and immigration, among other important issues.

Arrangement:

These materials fall into two series, Accession 1 and Accession 2. Series have been subdivided, where applicable, into the following subseries: Administrative files, Issue files, Newsletters, and Clippings and scrapbooks.

Physical location:
A portion of the collection is located at the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF).
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Zachary Liebhaber, 2019.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-01-18 16:15:39 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research. A portion of the collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara records, SBHC Mss 2. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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