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- catalog abstract "Collection includes speeches, 1926-1986; scrapbooks, 1932-1991; an address book used during the Stevenson-Kefauver campaign, 1956; correspondence, both personal and political; family genealogical information; photographs; clippings; memos; pamphlets; programs; mailings; and political ephemera. Also one videotape, shelved and cataloged separately.".
- catalog contributor b3620577.
- catalog coverage "Tennessee Politics and government 1865-1950.".
- catalog coverage "Tennessee Politics and government 1951-".
- catalog date "1852".
- catalog description "Civic worker, political campaigner, and advocate of civil rights, birth control, and women's rights, Martha (Ragsdale) Ragland was born in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1906, the daughter of Joseph Senter and Viva Jane (Troutt) Ragsdale. She graduated from Vanderbilt University (A.B. 1927, M.A. in economics, 1928). During the 1930s and early 1940s she helped organize Planned Parenthood groups at the local and state levels, and in 1938 organized a speaking tour for Margaret Sanger in Tennessee. She held offices in the League of Women Voters at the local, state, and national levels, and worked for better housing and health services, tax equalization, and reform of the Tennessee constitution. In 1948 Ragland headed the women's division of the Democratic Party in the general election, and chaired the women's division in the Estes Kefauver (1948) and Albert Gore (1952) campaigns for the U.S. Senate. A delegate to the Democratic National Convention and member of the platform committee (1952), she was a member of the Democratic National Committee (1952-1956). In the 1956 presidential campaign she was vice-chair of National Volunteers for Stevenson-Kefauver. Other affiliations include the Volunteer Women's Roundtable, the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Tennessee Council on Human Relations; Tennessee Women's Political Caucus; and the Tennessee Commission on Children. She married businessman Tom Ragland in 1932; they had two children.".
- catalog description "Collection includes speeches, 1926-1986; scrapbooks, 1932-1991; an address book used during the Stevenson-Kefauver campaign, 1956; correspondence, both personal and political; family genealogical information; photographs; clippings; memos; pamphlets; programs; mailings; and political ephemera. Also one videotape, shelved and cataloged separately.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00023".
- catalog description "Martha Ragsdale Ragland Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "There is related material: papers concerning Estes Kefauver at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.".
- catalog extent "7 linear ft. (16 file boxes, 2 half file boxes) plus 1 folio+ folder, 8 photograph folders.".
- catalog issued "1852".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Palestine.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee Politics and government 1865-1950.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee Politics and government 1951-".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Birth control Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986.".
- catalog subject "Browning, Gordon, 1889-".
- catalog subject "Campaign management Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Chattanooga League of Women Voters.".
- catalog subject "Church Center for the United Nations.".
- catalog subject "Civic leaders Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights.".
- catalog subject "Democratic National Committee (U.S.). Women's Division.".
- catalog subject "Democratic Party (Tenn.)".
- catalog subject "Democratic Party (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Derian, Patricia M.".
- catalog subject "Dykeman, Wilma.".
- catalog subject "Education Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Edwards, India.".
- catalog subject "Gore, Albert, 1907-1998.".
- catalog subject "Gore, Pauline La Fon.".
- catalog subject "Gorman, Joseph Bruce.".
- catalog subject "Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963.".
- catalog subject "League of Women Voters (Nashville, Tenn.)".
- catalog subject "League of Women Voters (Tenn.)".
- catalog subject "Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-1981.".
- catalog subject "Mayors Election.".
- catalog subject "McGrory, Mary, 1918-2004.".
- catalog subject "McKinnon, Edna Rankin, 1893-".
- catalog subject "Miller, Freda D.".
- catalog subject "Miller, Mariko T. (Mariko Terasaki), 1932-".
- catalog subject "National League of Women Voters (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "National Women's Political Caucus (U.S.). Tennessee Chapter.".
- catalog subject "North Atlantic Treaty Organization Congresses.".
- catalog subject "Orgill, Edmund.".
- catalog subject "Overpopulation.".
- catalog subject "Planned Parenthood Federation of America.".
- catalog subject "Political campaigns.".
- catalog subject "Political refugees Palestine.".
- catalog subject "Politics, Practical.".
- catalog subject "Presidents Election.".
- catalog subject "Ragland, Martha Ragsdale, 1906-1996.".
- catalog subject "Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966.".
- catalog subject "School children Food Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "School milk programs Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Scott, Anne Firor, 1921-".
- catalog subject "Southern Regional Council.".
- catalog subject "Tennessee Democratic Women's Council.".
- catalog subject "United States Commission on Civil Rights. Tennessee State Advisory Committee.".
- catalog subject "Women Political activity Tennessee.".
- catalog subject "Women Southern States.".
- catalog title "Papers of Martha Ragsdale Ragland, 1852-1997 (inclusive), 1921-1997 (bulk).".
- catalog type "Speeches. aat".
- catalog type "collection".