Anne Baker papers, 1976-2014
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Summary
- Creator:
- Baker, Anne, 1951-
- Abstract:
- Anne Baker was an abortion counselor, serving as the Director of Counseling at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois for the majority of her career. The Anne Baker papers consist of informational pamphlets, handouts, forms, workshop evaluations, personal writings, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, VCRs, DVDs, cassettes, buttons, and sweatshirts.
- Extent:
- 4.7 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Materials in English
- Collection ID:
- RL.11441
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Anne Baker papers contains documentation of Baker's personal life and of her professional role as the Director of Counseling at the Hope Clinic of Granite City, Illinois. They include materials from workshops and trainings she gave, secondary literature about abortion counseling, correspondence, materials from different protests that she and other Hope Clinic staff attended, personal notes, histories of the Hope Clinic, and newspaper clippings from the kidnapping of Dr. Hector Zevallos and his wife Jean Rosalie Zevallos.
- Biographical / historical:
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Anne Baker received her B.A. in Social Welfare from S.I.U. Edwardsville in 1975. She went on to work at the Planned Parenthood of St. Louis from 1975-1976. Baker received her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Lindenwood College. In 1995, she published Abortion and Options Counseling: A Comprehensive Reference. Baker worked as a counselor and later the Director of Counseling at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois from 1976-2012.
The collection also contains significant records of the Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois. The Hope Clinic was founded in 1974 with Dr. Hector Zevallos as the medical director. The clinic was bombed and subsequently rebuilt in 1982. Dr. Hector Zevallos and his wife Rosalie Jean Zevallos were kidnapped by an anti-abortion terrorist group called the Army of God. They were released eight days later. The Hope Clinic remains in operation today, although the counseling wing of the clinic was disbanded in 2012 due to budget cuts.
- Acquisition information:
- The Anne Baker papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2014 and 2018.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Michelle Runyon and Laura Valentine: March 2019.
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2014-0215, 2018-0119
- Arrangement:
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Files are organized into six different series. These include: Abortion-related workshops and inservices, 1981-1999; Hope Clinic for Women, 1976-2013; Personal, 1978-2014; Publications, 1979-1988; Books, Pamphlets, and Thesis, 1988-2000s; and Audio-Visual, 1985-2010.
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- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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