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Brinson left her position as project lead in 1981 to work for the Young Women's Leadership Alliance (YWCA).","Concurrent with Brinson's departure, the SWRP experienced a reduced budget and a shift in the ACLU administration's priorities. These challenges led to the SWRP's dissolution. The remaining project funds were dispersed to affiliate offices in the South to further support women's issues. The ACLU's Women's Rights Project absorbed the SWRP's regional responsibilities and goals after its dissolution.","The American Civil Liberties Union Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) collection is composed of the organizational files used by the SWRP while it conducted grassroots efforts in the Southern United States to campaign for women's rights. The bulk of the collection consists of administrative and subject files Betsy Brinson used during her tenure as project coordinator. Other aspects of the collection include ACLU administrative files, correspondence with Southern ACLU offices and partner organizations, and compilations of notable legislation from southern states. This collection provides insight into the ACLU-SWRP's goals during Betsy Brinson's tenure as project coordinator and documents the project's efforts in encouraging the growth of grassroots activism to improve women's rights in the South.","Series 1 is composed primarily of files used to administer the SWRP. These administrative files include quarterly reports, staff council minutes, policy and mission statements, legal permits, conference planning, formal complaints, and litigation paperwork. The bulk of the administrative files are made up of the conference planning documents for various states, regions, and topics. 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Also included is correspondence with SWRP sponsor organizations and individual SWRP organizers such as Liz Wheaton.","Additionally, the series includes correspondence from outside organizations and individuals categorized by topic. These topics include complaints levied at the SWRP or ACLU in general, project-specific correspondence such as the Battered Women Project and Prison Death Penalty Project, and legal requests from individuals in southern states. ","The material highlights Brinson's engagement with new contacts in addition to those of the existing ACLU network of affiliates in the Southern United States, and her attempts to use this network to advance the SWRP's goals.","Series 3: State Legislation is composed of pieces of legislation from southern states deemed of note and compiled by the SWRP including published copies of house resolutions, bills, acts, laws, and executive orders. 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Now retired, Brinson dedicated her career and efforts to women's rights, documenting the history of civil rights, community support of HIV/AIDS patients, and anti-war efforts.","Selected examples of Brinson's contributions include: working with a team to conduct and collect over 200 oral histories with civil rights activists through the Kentucky Historical Society, leading to the production of a documentary titled \"Living the Story\"; working with Richmond AIDS Ministry and recruiting/training primary care doctors on how to care for people with HIV; conducting and collecting oral histories of Richmond people involved in justice work; serving on the board of Quaker House, an anti-war military counseling organization in North Carolina; and volunteering with the Richmond Peace Education Center (RPEC). As part of her work with Richmond Peace Education Center, Brinson helped organize the Eyes Wide Open Project, which displayed books of American soldiers who had died in Iraq. 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","Work history:\n1970-1974 - North Carolina American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) \n1974-1977 - State director, Virginia ACLU \n1977-1981 - Program director, Southern Women's Rights Project \n1981-1982 - Executive director, Southerners for Economic Justice \n1983-1984 - Community relations director, Richmond, Virginia Branch of YWCA \n1982-1998 - Adjunct faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) \n1982-1984 - Adjunct faculty, University of Richmond \n1982-1986 - Adjunct faculty, Mary Baldwin College \n1991-1993 - Assistant professor, Medical College of Virginia (MCV), Dept. of Family Practice \n1993-1998 - Assistant professor and program coordinator, MCV, School of Medicine \nSelected volunteer work: \n1982-1984 - Virginia's Commission on the Status of Women \n1982-1984 - Executive Board, Virginia Women's Cultural History Project \n1982-1986 - VCU Women's Studies Task Force \n1990-1991 - Central Virginia AIDS Services and Education and the Richmond AIDS Ministry\n","Contact Special Collections and Archives staff to request access to the \"Race, Class, Culture, Power\" panel discussion DVD-R at libsca@vcu.edu. File formats include .VOB and are viewable using a suitable media viewer/player.","The Betsy Brinson collection contains materials Brinson collected related to her activism and involvement in various organizations, namely the YWCA and Richmond Peace Education Center. The Richmond Peace Education Center materials include newsletters, as well as planning documents and ephemera for the Eyes Wide Open Project. The YWCA materials mostly include pamphlets, information on a YWCA children's reading program, and news clippings. The collection also contains miscellaneous newsletters and reports produced in Virginia or regionally about women's rights and social justice, pins and buttons that are largely political in nature, and photos from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. There are some syllabi and reading packets from Brinson's time teaching at VCU, but the collection largely reflects the organizations and work Brinson was involved with outside of VCU from 1974 to 2013.","DVD-R contains 5 .VOB video files of a panel discussion held by Richmond Times Dispatch. The panel was attended by Richmond Times Dispatch reporters and filmed. The panel is described as being about race, class, culture, and power, and as helping inform the direction of a series of stories (presumably with Richmond Times Dispatch) throughout the year. ","The panel took place on August 18, 2008","Part 1: 39:06 runtime\nPart 2: 11:50 runtime\nPart 3: 38:39 runtime\nPart 4: 39:00 runtime\nPart 5: 1:40 runtime","Introduction and organization of the panel: \n-Gilman Proctor\n-Cheryl Magazine","Moderator:\n-John Motley","Panelists:\n-Michael Blakey\n-Imad Damaj\n-Paul Fleisher\n-Rachel Flynn\n-Joseph Williams\n-Jeremiah Tillman\n-Teresa Roane\n-Evans Hopkins\n-Sherrie Brach\n-Renee Hill\n-Gary Rhodes\n-Lauranett Lee\n-Kay Coles James\n-Mary Miley Thenbald\n-Linda Pruitt\n-Karin Taylor\n-Oliver Singleton","Newsletters include:\nPeace Work, Volume 32, issue 359 - October 2005\nAmerican Friends Service Committee MARStar Newsletter of the Middle Atlantic Region, Volume 15, issue 1 - Winter 2007","Includes:\n-So You Want to Date a Feminist... 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