Faith Holsaert papers, 1950-2011

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Summary

Abstract:
Faith Holsaert is a Civil Rights and LGBT community activist. The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, publications, and other materials relating to the activities of Faith Holsaert from the 1960s to the present. A large portion of the collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, including SNCC, and the women's rights movement. Also includes materials from the writing and publishing of Hands on the Freedom Plow, some of which is restricted. The collection also has a large amount of personal memorabilia and materials relating to Holsaert's childhood and family. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.
Extent:
10.2 Linear Feet (6525 items)
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.00566

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence, newsletters, publications, and other materials relating to the activities of Faith Holsaert from the 1960s to the present. A large portion of the collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, including SNCC, and the women's rights movement. Also includes materials from the writing and publishing of Hands on the Freedom Plow, some of which is restricted. The collection also has a large amount of personal memorabilia and materials relating to Holsaert's childhood and family.

Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

Biographical / historical:

Faith Holsaert is a civil rights and community activist. She was born in New York in 1943, and took a year off from Barnard after her freshman year in 1962 to work with the SNCC. She was one of the earliest female student field workers. She worked on a voter registration project in Albany, Georgia, and on the Mississippi Summer Project. Subsequent to her civil rights work, Holsaert has worked on behalf of the back-to-the-land movement in New Mexico, labor relations in West Virginia, the Brown Berets, the anti-war movement, and LBGT rights. She is a co-editor of the book "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC" (2012), and has written elsewhere about her experiences in the civil rights movement. She currently lives in Durham, NC.

Acquisition information:

Gift, 2008 (2008-0277), 7.5 lin. ft.

Gift, 2010 (2010-0220), 1.2 lin. ft.

Gift, 2011 (2011-0150), 1.5 lin. ft.

Processing information:

Collection processed by Meghan Lyon and Megan Lewis

Encoded by: Meghan Lyon

Updated by: Amber Covington, 2011 and Megan Lewis, 2014

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 2008-0277, 2010-0220, 2011-0150

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[Identification of item], in the Faith Holsaert Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.