Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/001474744/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 40 of
40
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract "Correspondence, transcripts of speeches and other writings, articles and clippings, and notes of attorney, women's rights activist, writer, and public speaker, Sonia Pressman Fuentes. Also includes her web site.".
- catalog contributor b2095077.
- catalog date "1929".
- catalog description "After her tenure at the EEOC, Fuentes worked as a lawyer at the General Telephone Electronics Service Corporation (GTE), TRW Inc., and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She retired from HUD in 1993 to pursue her interests in writing and public speaking. Her memoir, Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter, was published in 1999.".
- catalog description "Correspondence, transcripts of speeches and other writings, articles and clippings, and notes of attorney, women's rights activist, writer, and public speaker, Sonia Pressman Fuentes. Also includes her web site.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01256".
- catalog description "From 1965 to 1973, Fuentes worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as the first woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel, and later became the chief of the Legislative Counsel Division of the General Counsel's Office. Her responsibilities included enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. In October 1966, she attended the organizing conference for the National Organization for Women (NOW). She also helped found other feminist organizations, such as the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) and Federally Employed Women (FEW).".
- catalog description "Sonia Pressman Fuentes Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Sonia Pressman Fuentes was born in 1928 in Berlin, Germany, to Hinda and Zysia Pressman, who were originally from Poland. She had one older brother Hermann, born in 1914. In 1933, she left Germany with her parents to escape the Nazis and join Hermann, who had earlier moved to Antwerp, Belgium. In April 1934, they emigrated to the United States and eventually settled in the Catskills in New York State. In 1950, she graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in liberal arts. In 1957, she graduated summa cum laude and first in her class from the University of Miami Law School.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent "4.16 linear ft. (10 file boxes) plus 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder, 10 audiocassettes, 2 compact discs, 9 videotapes, electronic records.".
- catalog issued "1929".
- catalog language "Materials in English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Feminism United States.".
- catalog subject "Fuentes, Sonia Pressman.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants United States.".
- catalog subject "Jewish families United States.".
- catalog subject "Jewish women United States.".
- catalog subject "Labor laws and legislation United States.".
- catalog subject "Midday Club (Stamford, Connecticut)".
- catalog subject "National Organization for Women.".
- catalog subject "Sex discrimination against women Law and legislation.".
- catalog subject "Sex discrimination in employment United States.".
- catalog subject "United States Information Agency.".
- catalog subject "United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.".
- catalog subject "Women lawyers United States.".
- catalog subject "Women's rights United States.".
- catalog title "Papers of Sonia Pressman Fuentes, ca.1929-1990 (inclusive), 1955-2009 (bulk).".
- catalog type "Audiotapes.".
- catalog type "Compact discs.".
- catalog type "Diaries.".
- catalog type "Electronic records.".
- catalog type "Interviews. aat".
- catalog type "Manuscripts for publication. aat".
- catalog type "Speeches. aat".
- catalog type "Videotapes. local".
- catalog type "Web sites.".
- catalog type "collection".