League of Women Voters activities in Connecticut, election to National Board, 1942; Office of Price Administration support, 1941; refugee children; Carrie Chapman Catt Memorial Foundation, later Overseas Education Fund of League of Women Voters and Institute for Foreign Visitors; relationship of local, state and national Leagues; President, League of Women Voters, 1950-1958: McCarthyism and Freedom Agenda, policy on Brown decision (1954), support for United Nations, relations with State Department; member, College Grants Advisory Committee of Ford Foundation; water management efforts in Connecticut, 1955; reminiscences of family members, including Hiram Percy Maxim; Frances Glessner Lee, police work, "Nutshell Studies"; impressions of Anna Lord Strauss and other League of Women Voters leaders
Women executives--United States; Internal security--United States; African Americans--Segregation; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Connecticut Politics and government; Lee, Percy Maxim, 1906-2002; League of Women Voters (U.S.); Ford Foundation; United Nations; United States. Office of Price Administration
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1973
Physical Description
559 pages
Note (Biographical)
Former president, League of Women Voters; interviewee married John Glessner Lee