Box 1-3 Folder 1
Senate Campaign: clippings, appeals, statements, January-December 1976
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 1-3 Folder 2
Mayoral Campaign: statements, statements, policy and speech drafts, clippings, July-Sept 1977
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 1-3 Folder 3
Town Meeting 1: unsorted, includes flyers, press releases, clips, notes on media.
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 1-3 Folder 4
Town Meeting 2: Media contacts and notes
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 1-3 Folder 5
CNN Spots, 1980
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 1-3 Folder 6
CNN Spots, 1981
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 1-3 Folder 7
CNN Spots, 1982
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 1-3 Folder 8
CNN Spots, 1983
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 1-3 Folder 9
Additional Rochelle writing for Bella: WQXR Editorial, 1981
(Three undated spots, marginal note suggests 5/17/??. 5/17/81 was a Monday but we already have a set of spots for that week)
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Bella Abzug:
Box 2 Folder 1
"Congresswoman Bella S.Abzug, Major Legislative Accomplishments 1971-1976", 10 pages
(Plus a list by LFK of statements and how some were edited, notably Oct 28 Congressional Record where attacks on banks were deleted. Sept 1976:Congressional Record about 20 pages of tributes to departing House Members, mostly about Bella)
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Budget and Jobs:
Box 2 Folder 2
Federal reimbursement: March-Oct 1975, HR 9652,The Uniform Federal Welfare and Medical Assistance Reimbursement Act of 1975, and S2476,
(Introduced by Senator Javits, with many co-sponsors, to increase federal reimbursement uniformly to 75%.Bella organized a citizens' committee on this and she was able to talk about this all over the
state. Includes a July 1975 proposal to the New School for a project to align the state's
Congressional delegation on federal-state policies)
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 2 Folder 3
NYC Budget Crisis: August-December 1975: drafts and docs. Includes multiple drafts of an undated statement on an SEC report.
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 2 Folder 4
Jobs: March-April 1976, HR50, the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976: Congressional Record statements, proposals to amend
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Economic Development:
Box 2 Folder 5
Proposals & policies: economic development in NY and the nation, national energy policy, housing, NYS Party for 1976 Democratic Party platform.
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 2 Folder 6
Economic development, 1976
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Education:
Box 2 Folder 7
Education, childcare, and libraries
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Environment:
Box 2 Folder 8
Environment & Energy: December 1975-August 1976: statements, press releases, clips, also Indian Point nuclear reactor in Westchester County, NY.
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Foreign Policy:
Box 2 Folder 9
International: Israel, nuclear war, Angola, UN, Vietnam
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Health:
Box 2 Folder 10
Health & aging
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Housing:
Box 2 Folder 11
Housing and public works, NYC tunnel workers
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Individual Rights:
Box 2 Folder 12
Info & Rights: her subcommittee on Information and Individual Rights.
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 2 Folder 13
1983 Additional Rochelle writing: 5-page draft on "Squeal rule" plus -page sidebar
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Larry Kramer:
Box 2 Folder 14
Larry Kramer materials: Aug 1975 LFK memo to Bella on my work to date as a volunteer and Congressional staffer "issues person" Other research & notes.
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Transit:
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 2 Folder 15
Transit
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Women:
Box 2 Folder 16
Women & sexual orientation
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 2 Folder 17
Cassette tape "Bella at Automation House" (the institute founded by mediator Theodore Kheel), undated, labeled Side 2 and Side 4
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 2 Folder 18
VHS tape labeled 1977 Houston Women's Conf Doc (documentary?)
Donated by Rochelle Lefkowitz
Box 3 Folder 1
Newsletters: June 1975 and Oct 1976 Bella Abzug in Congress, other district reports, 20th CD community conferences.
Donated by Lawrence Felix
Box 3 Folder 2
Brochure "Democratic Women are Wonderful: A History of Women at Democratic National Conventions" by the National Women's Political Caucus,
(On page 34 acknowledgments, Bella is the first person to get special thanks, Bella is the first person listed (because of her last name))
Box 3 Folder 3
Clippings: probably around 100 unsorted news articles, opinion pieces, etc.
Donated by Lawrence Kramer
Box 3 Folder 4
Memorabilia: Cartoons, poems from staff; write-in options.
Donated by Lawrence Kramer