Scope and Contents
The Eleanor R. Davis papers comprise professional and personal documents, including printed materials, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, notes, clippings, photographs, ephemera, and video and audio recordings. This collection includes a significant amount of material relating to Davis’ work on the advancement of women in Oregon. This includes her involvement in groups such as the Task Force on Sex Discrimination in Education, the State Advisory Council on Sex Discrimination in Employment, the Oregon Council for Women's Equality, the American Association of University Women, the Unitarian Church, and a variety of other civil rights-related commissions and task forces.
Dates
- 1963-1989
Creator
- Davis, Eleanor R., 1922- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time. Collection includes sound recordings, moving images, and digital files to which access is restricted. Access to these materials is governed by repository policy and may require the production of listening or viewing copies. Researchers requiring access must notify Special Collections and University Archives in advance and pay fees for reproduction services as necessary.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Eleanor R. Davis was born in Seattle, WA in 1922. She majored in Sociology at the University of Washington. She and her husband, Charles, settled in Portland in 1951.
In the early 1960s Davis became active in the American Association of University Women and the women's group at the First Unitarian Church. She was elected to the national board of the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation in 1964 where she served for six years. In 1971 Davis helped form the Oregon Council for Women’s Equality, and became a chief advocate for the advancement of women in Oregon. From 1974-1984 she was employed as a paid field investigator in the Civil Rights Division of the Oregon Bureau of Labor.
Davis was among those successfully campaigning for Oregon to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). After the ERA was ratified, Davis went on to serve on the Task Force on Sex Discrimination in Education, the State Advisory Council on Sex Discrimination in Employment, the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, and a variety of other civil rights-related commissions and task forces.
Extent
8.25 linear feet (7 containers) : 5 record storage boxes, 1 manuscript box, 1 half manuscript box
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection includes professional and personal materials relating to Eleanor Davis’ work on the advancement of women in Oregon. This includes her involvement in groups such as the Task Force on Sex Discrimination in Education, the State Advisory Council on Sex Discrimination in Employment, the Oregon Council for Women's Equality, the American Association of University Women, the Unitarian Church, and a variety of other civil rights-related commissions and task forces.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series:
Series I: Governor's Commission for Women (GCW)
Series II: Metropolitan Human Relations Commission (MHRC)
Series III: Oregon Council for Women's Equality (OCWE)
Series IV: Oregon Women's Political Caucus (OWPC)
Series V: Subject Files
Processing Information
Collection processed by Austin Pliska
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Audiocassettes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Clippings Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Equal rights amendments Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon Council for Women’s Equality
- Oregon Women's Political Caucus
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation
- Unitarian Universalists -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Video recordings (physical artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Women's rights -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Eleanor Davis papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Austin Pliska and Kira B. Homo
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) administered through the Oregon State Library.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
