Register of the Sherna B. Gluck Papers,
1961-1987
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Register of the Sherna B. Gluck Papers, 1961-1987
Collection number: MSS 018
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles, California
Contact Information:
- Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
- 6120 S. Vermont Avenue
- Los Angeles, California 90044
- Phone: (323) 759-6063
- Fax: (323) 759-2252
- Email: archives@socallib.org
- URL: http://www.socallib.org
- Processed by:
- Adele Wallace
- Date completed:
- 1999
© 2000 Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Sherna B. Gluck Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1961-1987
Collection number: MSS 018
Creator:
Gluck, Sherna B.
Extent: 1 record storage box and 1 document case
1 1/3 cubic feet
Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sherna B. Gluck Papers, Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles.
Biography
Sherna Berger Gluck has been a progressive community activist in Southern California since the 1950s. As a graduate student
in sociology at UCLA she challenged the McCarthy era restrictions against Communist speakers. She was one of the earliest
local activists in the women's movement. In 1972, she co-founded the Feminist History Research Project, connected with the
Westside Women's Center. As an oral historian she has interviewed women involved in the suffrage, birth control labor, and
other progressive movements of the early twentieth century.
In 1977 she began teaching at California State University at Long Beach where she subsequently became the director of the
Oral History and Women's History Programs. She was actively involved in the Socialist Feminist Network, the Feminist Forum,
and numerous other local women's organizations and coalitions. In 1987 she was a founding member of the Committee for Justice
which worked to support the LA Eight, seven Palestinians and a Kenyan threatened with deportation.
Her published works include
Rosie the Riveter Revisited, From Parlor to Prison, and
An American Feminist in Palestine: The Intifada Years.
Scope and Content
The Sherna Berger Gluck collection is divided into three series. LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S MOVEMENT, WOMEN'S MOVEMENT - GENERAL,
and COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE.
The LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S MOVEMENT series contains two sub-series entitled
Reproductive Rights and
General Feminist. The
Reproductive Rights sub-series is the major component of the LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S MOVEMENT series and includes considerable documentation on the
January 22 Committee for Reproductive Rights of which Gluck was a founding member. It contains fliers for numerous actions
and demonstrations, including a die-in to protest the death of Rosie Jiminez, the first woman to die from an illegal abortion
after the Hyde Amendment cut off Medicaid funds for abortions for poor women. The
General Feminist sub-series provides a great deal of documentation regarding many of the individuals and organizations involved in the Los
Angeles Women's movement in the 1980's. Of particular note are the newsletters and minutes of the Socialist Feminist Network
of Southern California. The minutes of March 20, 1982 describe a report by Alicia Rivera, a Salvadoran refugee, and a discussion
of the role of women in revolution, particularly in the Salvadoran revolution.
The WOMEN'S MOVEMENT - GENERAL series contains records that primarily concern feminist activities and organizations outside
of Los Angeles. The series is divided into two sub-series,
Anti-Censorship Coalition and
Readings on the Right. The
Anti-Censorship Coalition papers include a statement of purpose for FACT/LA (Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force/Los Angeles). There are also documents
which reflect the debate within the women's movement over the issue of supporting anti-pornography legislation, including
a defense of the proposed legislation by Carol Downer, founder of the Los Angeles Feminist Women's Health Center. The sub-series
Readings on the Right consists primarily of reproductions of articles by various profamily activists of the 1980s.
The COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE series documents the activities of the organization, established in 1987 on the campus of California
State University Long Beach (CSULB) to defend the eight Palestinian and one Kenyan who were threatened with deportation by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) under provisions of the McCarren-Walter act of 1952. Two of the Palestinian
defendants were students at CSULB at the time. Included is a copy of a petition signed by faculty members calling for repeal
of the McCarran-Walter act.
LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S MOVEMENT
Box 1, Folder 5
Agendas, minutes 1985 - 1986
Box 1, Folder 6
Clinica Eva Defense Committee
Box 1, Folder 10
Socialist Feminist Network 1979 - 1981
Box 1, Folder 11
Los Angeles Working Group, Califia Community
WOMEN'S MOVEMENT - GENERAL
Anti-Censorship Coalition
Box 1, Folder 12
Correspondence 1984 - 1985
Box 1, Folder 13
Position Papers 1984 - 1985
Box 1, Folder 17
H.L. Richardson Articles 1961, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1981 - 1983
Box 1, Folder 18
Pamphlets, Articles 1980 - 1983
Box 1, Folder 19
Pro-Family Articles 1980, 1981
Box 2, Folder 1
New Conservatives 1980 - 1982
Box 2, Folder 2
Schlafly Reports 1983 - 1986
Box 2, Folder 3
Pro-Choice, Right-to Life 1985 - 1987
Box 2, Folder 4
Correspondence, Articles 1987
