Collections : [Barnard Archives & Special Collections]

This collection contains 1700+ folders of feminist ephemera collected by the Barnard Center for Research on Women on topics such as women, gender, activism, labor, sexuality, healthcare, marriage, psychology, development, and law.

The White House Project was created in 1998, an offshoot of the Ms. Foundation, the organization worked to help put women in positions of leadership. The White House Project was created with the ideal that a woman should be President sooner rather than later, and worked to increase female presence in business and American governmental spaces. Known for their catchphrase "Vote, Run, Lead" the Project ran a non-partisan conference called Go Run which connected women to workshops and opportunities to learn how to run for office.

Ntozake Shange (1948-2018, BC '70) was an American playwright and poet. The Ntozake Shange Papers include manuscripts and drafts of works; correspondence; diaries and agendas; clippings, programs, and ephemera; teaching documents; personal and professional photographs; awards, memorabilia, and personal effects; and texts, music, and other works by others collected by Shange.

This collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, drafts, and poems of the Chilean poet and nobel laureate, Gabriela Mistral.