Description
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.
Background
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.
Extent
21 Linear Feet
(8 cartons, 11 flat boxes)
Restrictions
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.
Availability
The collection is open for research. A portion of the collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.