Sue Davidson papers, 1950s-2000s

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Davidson, Sue, 1925-
Title
Sue Davidson papers
Dates
1950s-2000s (inclusive)
Quantity
17.39 cubic feet (15 boxes plus 1 map folder)
Collection Number
6051 (Accession No. 6051-001)
Summary
Materials related to Sue Davidson's work as a social activist, writer, and editor
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Some records stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Sue Davidson (March 30, 1925-September 28, 2016) was a writer, editor, and political and social activist. Davidson's political consciousness was forged by her childhood in the segregated South. From the late 1950s through the 1970s she devoted most of her time to the civil rights, peace, and antiwar movements, working with organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, and the American Civil Liberties Union in Seattle; she was also active in the Congress of Racial Equality. In 1961, Davidson helped organize one of the first "Ban the Bomb" peace marches in Seattle. In 1966, she co-organized a city-wide school boycott protesting de facto protesting racial segregation. A leader in the local movement opposing the Vietnam War, she was instrumental in organizing numerous and increasingly militant, but nonviolent, anti-war and anti-draft demonstrations. She was arrested in 1968 for participating in a sit-in at a Selective Service office. In the 1970s, she worked as a community organizer for Seattle's Model Cities program.

Davidson began her writing career at 16, when she was hired by the Galveston Daily News as a features writer and then as editor of its “Society Page”; she also published several short stories in literary journals. She received a scholarship in creative writing from Stanford University (1949-1950) and was awarded the 1950 Saxton Fellowship for young writers (other recipients included James Baldwin). In the 1950s and 1960s she turned to nonfiction, publishing articles in magazines including The Nation and The Progressive. Beginning in the 1970s, she focused mainly on women's history and women's issues, working as an editor for The Feminist Press in New York, from 1974 to 1980, as co-director of its multivolume Women's Work/Women's Lives series. In the 1990s she was invited to join PEN and organized Seattle events supporting freedom of expression for writers, including Salman Rushdie. In the 1990s she wrote a series of youth biographies on women pioneers in politics, sports, and journalism, and, with Ginny NiCarthy, the widely-read You Can Be Free-An Easy-to-Read Handbook for Abused Women, all published by Seal Press.

Born Betty Sue Davidson, on March 30, 1925, in Houston, Texas, Davidson grew up on neighboring Galveston Island, Texas, with her sister, Hortense, and parents, Isadore and Helen (Grossberg) Davidson, who owned a women's clothing store there. In 1943, she married Alex Gottfried, a lieutenant in Army Air Corps. Davidson earned a master’s degree in the humanities from the University of Chicago in 1949. She moved to Seattle in 1950, when her husband joined the political science faculty at the University of Washington. The couple had a daughter and lived the rest of their lives in Seattle. Davidson died September 28, 2016.

Adapted from Davidson’s obituary in The Seattle Times on July 1, 2018.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The collection includes publications, writings, pamphlets, cassette tapes, books, articles, posters, and other ephemera relating to Sue Davidson's work on the Feminist Press and with Seal Press, her engagement in political causes such as opposing the draft and supporting peace, and personal writings including interviews, articles, publications, and her unproduced play/operetta "Red Emma," about the life of Emma Goldman

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyrights retained by creator but the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections can grant use permissions. Restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 2 accessions.

  • Accession No. 6051-001, Sue Davidson papers, 1950s-2000s
  • Accession No. 6051-002, Sue Davidson papers, 1951-2010

Preservation Note

Some records stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Erika Davidson Gottfried, 2016 and 2021

Related Materials

Alex Gottfried papers (Mss Collection 2264)

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 6051-001: Sue Davidson papers, 1950s-2000sReturn to Top

14.82 cubic feet (13 boxes plus 1 map folder)
Arrangement: Arranged in 3 series.
  • Series 1, The Feminist Press
  • Series 2, Political Material
  • Series 3, Writings

Scope and Content: The collection includes publications, writings, pamphlets, cassette tapes, books, articles, posters, and other ephemera relating to Sue Davidson's work on the Feminist Press, her engagement in political causes such as opposing the draft and supporting peace, and personal writings including interviews, articles, publications, and her unproduced play/operetta "Red Emma," about the life of Emma Goldman

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Records stored off site; advance notice required for use.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator but the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections can grant use permissions. Restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Erika Davidson Gottfried

Container(s) Description Dates
Series 1: The Feminist Press
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 6051-001
Minutes, Committees
1/2 6051-001
Minutes and Reports
1/3 6051-001
Black Women: Book, All Correspondence w. Dorothy and Walker
1/4 6051-001
M. Church Terrell et al: Notes and Correspondence
1/5 6051-001
Black Foremothers: Correspondence
1/6 6051-001
Black Foremothers
1/7 6051-001
H5: General Guidelines, 1st Series Individual Guidelines
1/8 6051-001
HS Project Minutes
1/9 6051-001
HS Project New Correspondence w. Staff
July 1977
1/10 6051-001
HS Project, Misc, Brochures, Guides, Teachers
1/11 6051-001
Working Women in Literature (Series I)
1/12 6051-001
Black Foremothers Teaching Guide
1/13 6051-001
Language and Sexism: Correspondence, Guidelines, etc.
1/14 6051-001
High School Testing Questionnaire
1/15 6051-001
HS Schedules - Sue's Editing
1/16 6051-001
Seattle Testing and New Testing Material
1/17 6051-001
FP Assortment
1975, 1979
1/18 6051-001
(Sandy) Teaching Guide and Black Women and Testing
1/19 6051-001
Summaries of All Series Books/Merle and Dora Article
1978
1/20 6051-001
Current My Books and Minutes and Correspondence from Staff
1/21 6051-001
FM/BM Model for WL/WW
1/22 6051-001
Packet Contents, Assorted
Autumn 1979
1/23 6051-001
Teachers: Outlines, Old and New
1/24 6051-001
1980: FP File in Seattle
1980
1/25 6051-001
Take to NY FP
1979
1/26 6051-001
Tucson Conference Correspondence
1977, 1978
1/27 6051-001
Production - Susan Correspondence
January 1979
1/28 6051-001
WL/WW Design/Production Costs
1/29 6051-001
Production Anthology and Second Printing
1982, 1983
1/30 6051-001
Social Change
1/31 6051-001
Fund Raising
1977
1/32 6051-001
FP Fundraising
1/33 6051-001
Fundraising
December 1975
1/34 6051-001
Fundraising
1/35 6051-001
Fundraising
1/36 6051-001
Informational Materials News Releases
1/37 6051-001
Corporation FP, Letter for Funds
1978-1979
1/38 6051-001
Production: Current
1981
1/39 6051-001
Promotion
1/40 6051-001
Production
1/41 6051-001
Production and Promotion
1/42 6051-001
Feminist Issues
1/43 6051-001
Staff Retreat
1975
1/44 6051-001
FP Retreat Planning/Materials to be Written
1977
1/45 6051-001
Staff Retreat - Audiocassette Tape
1979, February 1991
1/46 6051-001
Reprints FP
1976-1978
1/47 6051-001
Ginny's Jail Stay - Reprints Con.
1/48 6051-001
FP Miscellaneous
1/49 6051-001
Women's Studies/ In-Service Ed.
1/50 6051-001
Ness
1/51 6051-001
General Press Biz
January 1980
1/52 6051-001
Private and Biz: NY
Fall 1980
1/53 6051-001
Maimie Papers and Correspondence
2/1 6051-001
Maimie, Serial Rites Letters: Notes
2/2 6051-001
Maimie - Name Changes, Correspondence Regarding
1975-1976
2/3 6051-001
Maimie
2/4 6051-001
Reviews, General
2/5 6051-001
Promotion Books, General
November 1978
2/6 6051-001
Maimie Reviews
2/7 6051-001
Reviews, Flyers, Including British Review Maimie
1980
2/8 6051-001
Promotion Including Maimie, Letters from Maimie's Family
2/9 6051-001
Maimie Correspondence for FP
2/10 6051-001
Maimie Correspondence
2/11 6051-001
Maimie Correspondence
2/12 6051-001
Maimie Acknowledgment and Chronology, to Finish
2/13 6051-001
Fund-Raising: Maimie
2/14 6051-001
Fundraising - Sue's Current for Maimie
2/15 6051-001
Read/File, FP Correspondence, Assorted Minutes, etc.
2/16 6051-001
Staff Reports/Projection to Steering Company
1979
2/17 6051-001
Steering Committee
2/18 6051-001
FP Events: Communications of Staff, Board, CCs of News Stories
2/19 6051-001
Press Releases News Articles
2/20 6051-001
Book Promotion How To's Sample Flyers
2/21 6051-001
FP Addresses, Phones of Various Contacts
2/22 6051-001
Teachers: Correspondence and Criticism Outline
2/23 6051-001
FP - Some Valuable Info Here - Needs to be Cleaned Out
2/24 6051-001
Contacts, Women
2/25 6051-001
Editorial/Publications Committee, FP the Feminist Press
2/26 6051-001
Production, All Books, Recent w. Susan
2/27 6051-001
To File
2/28 6051-001
WL/WW Design/Production Costs
January 17, 1980
2/29 6051-001
WL/WW Staff Time Projections
January 1979
2/30 6051-001
Correspondence w. Flo, Betsy, etc.
2/31 6051-001
[Folder Label is Torn]
2/32 6051-001
Kearns - WIN Review and Correspondence
2/33 6051-001
Kollwitz
2/34 6051-001
Kathe Kollwitz Production
2/35 6051-001
Kollwitz: Changes and Additions, Maimie Corrections
2/36 6051-001
Copy Kollwitz Editing
2/37 6051-001
HS Project: Early Planning, Schedules, Budgets, Reports
2/38 6051-001
High School Project, Basic Materials, Early Correspondence Old
2/39 6051-001
Group School Correspondence and Notes
2/40 6051-001
Feminist Press Copy Editing and Correspondence
2/41 6051-001
Law Book: Outlines, Proposals, Correspondence
2/42 6051-001
E. Proposals/ Sue KK Speech
2/43 6051-001
Margaret Walker
2/44 6051-001
Copy Editing Library of Congress
2/45 6051-001
Permissions
2/46 6051-001
Financial Information
2/47 6051-001
Copyrights Since 1979
2/48 6051-001
Correspondence and Public Meetings
May-July 1979
2/49 6051-001
FP Business to Attend to
February 1980
2/50 6051-001
FP Packet Record
June 1980
2/51 6051-001
WL/WW Memos on Books in Progress, etc.
1979
2/52 6051-001
WL/WW Work Projections, Minutes, etc.
3/7 6051-001
Mail From FP, Not Sorted, But Read
May 1980
3/8 6051-001
Cantarew (sp?): Sac Charge
3/9 6051-001
Teachers: Production, Photos, Tillie Olsen Matten
3/1 6051-001
Law
3/2 6051-001
WL/WW Minutes
3/3 6051-001
Minutes/Reports, Board and Committee
3/4 6051-001
Sports - Teaching Guide
3/5 6051-001
Maimie Papers Local Promo
3/6 6051-001
Newsletters, Clippings
3/7 6051-001
HS Project, Correspondence and Reports In-House Minutes
3/8 6051-001
Board Meeting - Reports
3/9 6051-001
Audiotape Cassettes of Public Readings of Selections from the Maimie Papers
1978
3/10 6051-001
Maimie, pp. 1-273
3/11 6051-001
Maimie, pp. 274-480
3/12 6051-001
Maimie # 481-623
3/13 6051-001
Maimie Folders 20-21, pp. 624-763
3/14 6051-001
Maimie Folders 22-27, pp. 764-934
3/15 6051-001
Maimie - 2nd Edition Promos and Reviews
1997
3/16 6051-001
Ready for Mailing to Betsy
3/17 6051-001
Cayden, Sue's Notes on Book
3/18 6051-001
Photographs, Antoinette Brown
3/19 6051-001
Maimie: Intro (Ruth's Original)
3/20 6051-001
Intro, Copy
3/21 6051-001
Maimie Copied: Matters Already Attended to
3/22 6051-001
Maimie: Chronology and Characters
3/23 6051-001
Maimie: Pages Changed After Consultation with Ruth and Re-Typed
3/24 6051-001
Maimie - Enveloped Papers
3/25 6051-001
Whole Pages Cut from Maimie
3/26 6051-001
Footnotes
4/1 6051-001
Cayden Correspondence
4/2 6051-001
ABB [Antoinette Brown Blackwell]
4/3 6051-001
Chronology, Geneology, Bibliography, and Prologue
4/4 6051-001
ABB: "Expert Readers," Promo Ideas Betsy/Sue Need to Correspond
4/5 6051-001
ABB: Sue's CC of Edited Final Draft
July 27, 1979
4/6 6051-001
ABB: Sue's Extended Noted on Each Chapter
Beginning December 1976
4/7 6051-001
ABB New 13, 14, 15, and CC w. Some Notes
December 1979
4/8 6051-001
ABB - Flo's Comments
4/9 6051-001
ABB - Ch. 13, 14, 15 Old Versions
February 1978
4/10 6051-001
Land: Testing Ed, Complete
4/11 6051-001
Land: Women Including Correspondence
4/12 6051-001
Land: Earliest Work
4/13 6051-001
Spreads and Extra Galleys on Coffee Table
4/14 6051-001
Land: Comments on Testing Ed. Material
4/15 6051-001
Land: All Comments with Test Results
4/16 6051-001
Land - Comments on 4 and 5, Additions to 3
4/17 6051-001
Land - Intro, Phot. Essay, T of C - Finished, Old
4/18 6051-001
Specs for Land and MUJ
4/19 6051-001
Land: All FM/BM and Preface
4/20 6051-001
Land: FM/BM Specs Correspondence
March 1980
4/21 6051-001
Land, a Few Notes on To Do and ABI
4/22 6051-001
Land: Correspondence and Cast-Off
4/23 6051-001
#1 Maimie
4/24 6051-001
ERA - Correspondence, Critiques
4/25 6051-001
California House
4/26 6051-001
Maimie #481-623
4/27 6051-001
Maimie pp. 624-763 Folders 20-21
4/28 6051-001
Maimie pp. 764-891 Folders 22-27
4/29 6051-001
Organizations
4/30 6051-001
Susan Trow and Style Sheet
4/31 6051-001
Textual Matters: Maimie, Does Not Need Rechecking
4/32 6051-001
Maimie: Textual Matters (Letter Numbers, Name Changes, etc.)
4/33 6051-001
Maimie: Old Text Note; Retired Notes
4/34 6051-001
Style Sheet, Production, and Copyediting
4/35 6051-001
Maimie: Footnotes, Text
4/36 6051-001
Copies of Chronology
4/37 6051-001
Maimie: If There's Time
4/38 6051-001
Ruth's Line-Changes and Possible Future Cuts
5/1 6051-001
FM/BM of Notes to Jeanne
5/2 6051-001
After Blues Arrive
5/29 6051-001
New FP Mailings
5/30 6051-001
Staffing/Personnel Discussions
5/31 6051-001
Schedules
5/32 6051-001
Women's Lives, Women's Work - Miscellaneous
5/33 6051-001
Direct Mail - Samples
5/34 6051-001
FP Troubles Retract
1979
6/1 6051-001
Correspondence, Notes
January 1979, 1980
6/2 6051-001
Arts: New Selections, Correspondence
October 1978
6/3 6051-001
New Correspondence - Attention
6/4 6051-001
Art, Women: Correspondence Before Hedges, Wendt
6/5 6051-001
Arts: New Correspondence to ne Answered by Flo
6/6 6051-001
Art - Hedges/Wendt Correspondence
6/7 6051-001
Art Notes
6/8 6051-001
Arts: Photo Captions
6/9 6051-001
Staff and Teacher and My Critique
6/10 6051-001
Arts Index
6/11 6051-001
Arts Correspondence to Present
Spring/Summer 1979
6/12 6051-001
Visuals Parts I-II
6/13 6051-001
Radio Talk: Show Hosts, Other Correspondence
1979, 1980
6/14 6051-001
Editorial Matters
6/15 6051-001
Ed/Pub Communication: Procedures (Both Design and Editing)
6/16 6051-001
Correspondence, FP Staff
6/17 6051-001
FP Staff Correspondence, Part II
6/18 6051-001
FP Staff Correspondence, Part III
6/19 6051-001
FP Assorted
1977
6/20 6051-001
FP Misc. Correspondence and Minutes, WL/WW Comments
1979-1980
6/21 6051-001
FP Emergency Job Applicants
6/22 6051-001
Minutes, Staff Meetings
6/23 6051-001
Board
1979
6/24 6051-001
Board Meeting
May-July 1979
6/25 6051-001
FP New Board Candidates and Correspondence
Winter 1979
6/26 6051-001
Personnel and Correspondence, FP
6/27 6051-001
Personnel (Replacement While Original is Missing)
6/28 6051-001
Personnel - Bills to Press to Straighten Out
6/29 6051-001
Barbara Wilson Papers on Permanent Presses
6/30 6051-001
Pre-"Revolution" FP
September-October 1980
6/31 6051-001
Review Committee for FP "Revolution"
6/32 6051-001
FP: Call to Liz
6/33 6051-001
Sue's Letter to Authors and the Enclosures
6/34 6051-001
Photograph of Feminist Press Staff
6/35 6051-001
Clips re: Feminist Press and Miscellaneous Correspondence - Mostly Internal
6/36 6051-001
Feminist Press Catalogs
Box
7 6051-001
Books, Publications, Cassettes,
General Notes: No Labeled Folders
folder:oversize
14 6051-001
Posters
Scope and Content: Posters – both Seattle/regional and national, and two signs
Series 2: Political Materials
Box/Folder Accession
3/27 6051-001
Seattle Peace Information Center
1962
3/28 6051-001
Hiroshima Exhibit, [Seattle] World's Fair
1962+
5/3 6051-001
World of Hiroshima
5/4 6051-001
Hiroshima
5/5 6051-001
Letter to Mayor Hamai
5/6 6051-001
Gordon Hirabayashi Case
5/7 6051-001
CORE Education Project - General
5/8 6051-001
CORE- Education Project - Homes
5/9 6051-001
Political - Lists - PEN Washington
5/10 6051-001
Draft Resistance - Memorabilia
1980-1984?
5/11 6051-001
Draft and Women
5/12 6051-001
Draft and Civil Liberties - Good, Timeless
5/13 6051-001
Maribeth/Sue - Schools [Anti-Draft Campaign Directed at Seattle High Schools]
5/14 6051-001
Teaching About Peace
5/15 6051-001
Youth/Military Organizations
5/16 6051-001
Counter-Recruiting Youth and Military
5/17 6051-001
Military - Draft - Resistance
5/18 6051-001
Tax Resistance
5/19 6051-001
Civil Disobedience [Draft Resistance]
5/20 6051-001
AFSC -Peace Education [Committee]
1963-1964
5/21 6051-001
[AFSC exhibit at] NEA [annual meeting?]
1964
5/22 6051-001
Retreat - AFSC - Peace Education Section Retreat
5/23 6051-001
Nonviolence Workshop
5/24 6051-001
Platform for Peace - History & Information Written for Others
5/25 6051-001
Art Show Controversy
1961
5/26 6051-001
United Farm Workers
5/27 6051-001
Seattle "Movement" Organizations - Miscellaneous Mixed Materials
5/28 6051-001
Youth and Militarism
6/37 6051-001
War Resisters League
1976
6/38 6051-001
WTO Follow-Ups of All Kinds
2001
6/39 6051-001
JR [Jeanette Rankin] Articles Correspondence
2001
6/40 6051-001
September 11, 2001
September 2001
6/41 6051-001
SNOW- Points of Agreement
6/42 6051-001
Off Our Backs: Arguments vs. Feminists Being Pacifists
8/1 6051-001
Publicity Guide-All Media at That Time. Basics
1960s
8/2 6051-001
Media
2004
8/3 6051-001
Political
8/4 6051-001
Nonviolence Ideas
8/5 6051-001
Iraq
8/6 6051-001
ICC Projects
8/7 6051-001
ACLU -Your Rights on the Street
8/8 6051-001
Mass Media
8/9 6051-001
Trident -NYT Coverage, Ginny, & Other
8/10 6051-001
Tax Revolt
8/11 6051-001
Leaflet Samples and Notes
8/12 6051-001
Trident Action
8/13 6051-001
Leaflet Sample
8/14 6051-001
Nicaragua
8/15 6051-001
Mayor of Hiroshima Address and Correspondence
2002
8/16 6051-001
Mideast War
1991
8/17 6051-001
Women and Non Violence
8/18 6051-001
Women's History Speakers Names/Addresses
1983
8/19 6051-001
[Salman] Rushdie Events
8/20 6051-001
ACLU -Nuke War
8/21 6051-001
NOW - Ltr. - Bellingham Matter
8/22 6051-001
ACLU - Nukes - Drafts of Sections and Various Other Materials
8/23 6051-001
ACLU Pornography/Boycott
8/24 6051-001
ACLU - Trident- NV [Nonviolent] Training Exercises
8/25 6051-001
Arms Race
8/26 6051-001
Nuke War & Civil Liberties
8/27 6051-001
ACLU Draft Correspondence - WKT, etc.
8/28 6051-001
ACLU Programs - Draft
1982-1983
8/29 6051-001
ACLU - Draft
1983
8/30 6051-001
ACLU - Draft Committee - Minutes
8/31 6051-001
Committees - Miscellaneous
1967-1968
8/32 6051-001
Arms Race & Local Contacts Info
1980
8/33 6051-001
Czechoslovakia & Other Issues
8/34 6051-001
Hiroshima Rally & Hiroshima Day
1968-1967
8/35 6051-001
Congress -Other
2001-2002
8/36 6051-001
Civil Liberties
8/37 6051-001
The Lincoln Brigade
8/38 6051-001
Counter [Military Service] Pamphlets
8/39 6051-001
Conferences and Events (NWSA)
1982-1985
8/40 6051-001
Leaflets and Lit
8/41 6051-001
Columbia Team
8/42 6051-001
U.N. Second Special Session on Disarmament
8/43 6051-001
April 15 Mobilization (Against the War in Vietnam) - Folder 1 of 2
8/44 6051-001
April 15 Mobilization (Against the War in Vietnam) - Folder 2 of 2
8/45 6051-001
"The Day After" (List of Organizations)
8/46 6051-001
FEMA, Bomb Shelter, etc.
8/47 6051-001
Contra Vote, Hanford
1986
8/48 6051-001
South Africa Action - Clips and CC's
8/49 6051-001
Israel-Arab
8/50 6051-001
Central America - Pledge and Other Material
8/51 6051-001
AFSC - Correspondence
1965-1967
8/52 6051-001
AFSC - Peace Education Committee - Minutes
1965-1966
8/53 6051-001
AFSC Program Ideas
8/54 6051-001
April Days - Seattle Civil Action Plans
1968
9/1 6051-001
Michael Lerner - Guerilla Theater
9/2 6051-001
Spring Offensive
April-May 1971
9/3 6051-001
Politics File
9/4 6051-001
Vietnam - Bellingham Witness
9/5 6051-001
Peace - AFSC
9/6 6051-001
AFSC- Emergency Effort for Peace in Vietnam
9/7 6051-001
AFSC - Special Viet. Effort - My Reports
9/8 6051-001
Vietnam Summer - Correspondence and Mailing Lists
9/9 6051-001
Vietnam Summer - Business
9/10 6051-001
Vietnam Summer - Clippings
9/11 6051-001
Vietnam Commencement
9/12 6051-001
Seattle Peace Education Committee
9/13 6051-001
Boeing Demonstration
9/14 6051-001
Polaris Action - Boeing Action
9/15 6051-001
AFSC - Peace Committee Programs
September 1966
9/16 6051-001
AFSC - Steering Committee
9/17 6051-001
AFSC - Public Witness Subcommittee
9/18 6051-001
AFSC -Urban Affairs Subcommittee
9/19 6051-001
AFSC - Meeting and Background
June 1966
9/20 6051-001
April Days
1968
9/21 6051-001
November 27, March
1966
9/22 6051-001
AFSC Peace Committee Programs
September 1965-1966
9/23 6051-001
Seattle Civil Action Kiro and Incident with Marshalls
9/24 6051-001
Seattle Civil Action Conn. Oct. 17
10/1 6051-001
Seattle Civil Action Committee -Overflow
10/2 6051-001
Draft Resistance
10/3 6051-001
November Mobilization
1969
10/4 6051-001
Demonstrations & News Clippings
October 1967
10/5 6051-001
Tax Refusal -Telephone
10/6 6051-001
Stop the Draft Week
October 1967
10/7 6051-001
Vietnam Projects- Leaflets
10/8 6051-001
Nonviolence and The Movement (Social Change)
10/9 6051-001
Nonviolence Workshop
10/10 6051-001
Nonviolence Training -and Notes written by Sue Davidson
10/11 6051-001
War Toys
10/12 6051-001
MAD-FAD (Mothers Against the Draft, Fathers Against the Draft)
10/13 6051-001
Draft Counseling, Conscientious Objectors
10/14 6051-001
Sue Gottfried's AFSC Files
1965-1966
10/15 6051-001
Theatre West [Community Theater]
10/16 6051-001
Obituaries/Memorials - Local Political Activists
10/17 6051-001
Seattle "Movement" Organizations - Miscellaneous Mixed Materials
10/18 6051-001
Seattle "Movement" Organizations - Miscellaneous Mixed Materials
11/1 6051-001
Mike Siegal (Radio Host) Salman Rushdie Affair
March 1989
11/2 6051-001
Feminist and Women's Studies Materials
11/3 6051-001
Feminist and Women's Studies Materials
11/4 6051-001
Feminist Writers Guild - Seattle Chapter
11/5 6051-001
Feminist and Women's Studies Materials
11/6 6051-001
Feminist and Women's Studies Materials
11 6051-001
Miscellaneous Publications of Miscellaneous Seattle Organizations
General Notes: no folders
Series 3: Writings
Box/Folder Accession
5/35 6051-001
Red Emma Musical Score
9/25 6051-001
Old Resumes - Mine and Others, Contacts List, etc.
9/26 6051-001
Writings, P.R., Flyers, Samples for Job Applications
9/27 6051-001
Reviews, Correspondence re: Articles
1980s
9/28 6051-001
Employment: New Directions for Young Women; School/Community Change Project
9/29 6051-001
School/Community Change Project
9/30 6051-001
English Instructor - Shoreline Community College
1965-1966
9/31 6051-001
New Directions: Book Reviews, Articles, News Releases, Programs, Mailers, etc.
9/32 6051-001
ISBN and ABI For New Directions for Young Women
9/33 6051-001
Judy Bently (Henry Holt) Info, Correspondence, Editing
9/34 6051-001
Assention/Teen Flyer and Lampoon
9/35 6051-001
Employment: Editing - Freelance
9/36 6051-001
Correspondence: Sue Freelance Writing Editing
9/37 6051-001
K. Blair - Freelance
1985-1986
9/38 6051-001
Bills Freelance, Correspondence Freelance
1988-1989
9/39 6051-001
Freelance Earning
1984-1995
9/40 6051-001
Sample Authors - Contract (FP) and Relevant Correspondence
9/41 6051-001
Freelance Work and Correspondence and Billing
1989-1990
9/42 6051-001
Rasmussen (See for Model Contract)
9/43 6051-001
West States: Correspondence, Style Sheet
9/44 6051-001
Basic Facts Piece Working File
9/45 6051-001
Correspondence with Publisher - Mostly re: Published Books/Articles
9/46 6051-001
"Freedom Patrol" Progressive Article and Materials on Reese Case
9/47 6051-001
"Freedom Patrol"Article in "The Progressive" - Research Materials For
9/48 6051-001
Correspondence, Fellowship Publishers, the Progressive, etc.
9/49 6051-001
"History of Peace-Making" - Outlines
9/50 6051-001
History of Peace Making, Correspondence
12/1 6051-001
Seal Press: "Backbone" Journal/"Liberal Ladies" Correspondence Audiotape
1980-1981
12/2 6051-001
Seal
1990s
12/3 6051-001
Schedule Correspondence Seal Press
1990-1992
12/4 6051-001
Changing: Upcoming Events, Reviews, and Maimie Reviews
12/5 6051-001
Nancy, Ingrid, Pam: Promo, Mailings, etc.
1995-1997
12/6 6051-001
Proposal and Intro CTG
12/7 6051-001
Gibson and Marble Correspondence to Gibson
12/8 6051-001
Correspondence - Seal Press
12/9 6051-001
Getting Free
1989-1992
12/10 6051-001
GF Examples of Prose Simplification
12/11 6051-001
Order/Promo Getting the Real Story
12/12 6051-001
CTG Correspondence, Faith and Catalogue Prevention Copy
12/13 6051-001
Changing Publicity - Event
1997-1998
12/14 6051-001
Plans for the Next Book, Either WHD Series or Other
12/15 6051-001
Mink: Correspondence with Others, My Correspondence with Seal
12/16 6051-001
Mink: Correspondence
12/17 6051-001
Nelida - Promo and Reviews
12/18 6051-001
Reviews of Getting the Real Speaking Dates
12/19 6051-001
For Revising WHD Response Shuts and Letters
12/20 6051-001
WHD Promo: Mostly Individual SPL Events
12/21 6051-001
Mink: Articles Including Nader
12/22 6051-001
Patsy Mink, Film Correspondence
12/23 6051-001
Mink: Film on "Ahead", Correspondence with Others
12/24 6051-001
Location of Newspaper Files at UW Library
12/25 6051-001
Mink: Historical Legend
1990s
12/26 6051-001
Mink: Interview Responses
12/27 6051-001
Rankin - Research, Bibliography List
12/28 6051-001
Seal Press, WWD
12/29 6051-001
Seal Press
1990s
12/30 6051-001
Seal: General Correspondence
1997-2000s
12/31 6051-001
Royalities, YCBF and WHD
1998-1999
12/32 6051-001
Avalon Royalities
circa 2004
12/33 6051-001
Royalities: Avalon Seal and Other Pay/Expenses
12/34 6051-001
Seal Press Catalogs
12/35 6051-001
"History of Peace Making" - Miscellaneous and Bibliography
12/36 6051-001
Doves Journal - Tucson
1998
12/37 6051-001
Each: FM/EM
12/38 6051-001
Includes All My Speeches on Feminism and Nonviolence
12/39 6051-001
Feminism and Nonviolence
12/40 6051-001
Reading Relations
1999-2000
12/41 6051-001
Reading Aloud - Notes
March 1999
12/42 6051-001
Frontiers Aki K. Article
12/43 6051-001
Heresies (Women and Military), Women and the Draft: ACLU Speech
12/44 6051-001
Article on Writing
12/45 6051-001
Ashland Article
12/46 6051-001
Kauai Oral History: Biz Correspondence
1980
12/47 6051-001
Needle Proposal and Correspondence
12/48 6051-001
Jensen: Needle Trade and Correspondence
12/49 6051-001
Needle: Contract, Payments, Some Expenses (IRS)
12/50 6051-001
A Needle, A Bobbin, A Strike
12/51 6051-001
In the Bookwoman "The Seal Press Story"
13/1 6051-001
Original Unmarked Final for 4/87 Readings
April 1987
13/2 6051-001
Sewing Machine Some Means and End
13/3 6051-001
Red Emma Song
13/4 6051-001
Red Emma Pre-Final Typed by Nikhi
13/5 6051-001
Reunion Song
13/6 6051-001
In Our Commune
13/7 6051-001
Mother Earth Song
1988
13/8 6051-001
Philosophers Song
13/9 6051-001
Emma's Song Dancing to the Revolution
13/10 6051-001
Red Queen/Hobo King Versions
13/11 6051-001
Working CC: Reunion Songs, Not My Revolution, Cover Me
13/12 6051-001
Sc. 3 Draft with Extra Materials, Alternate Versions of Songs
13/13 6051-001
Revisions in Progress
December 1986
13/14 6051-001
Dicardo: He Doesn't Want a Woman and Last Version Cover Me
13/15 6051-001
Act II Detritus Including A Song for Nellie, Never Used
13/16 6051-001
Act III, Sc. 8 and 9 Background Material, Act III Final Speech
13/17 6051-001
Act II
13/18 6051-001
Detritus and Notes Act II (Background, Songs, etc.)
13/19 6051-001
General Lines of Duel - Opponent
13/20 6051-001
Specific: Chronology, Events Capable of Being Dramatized
13/21 6051-001
Land: Culls
13/22 6051-001
Red Emma - Working Script Revised Post-Reading
Spring 1987
13/23 6051-001
Sue's Marked CC of EG from 4/87 Reading
April 1987
13/24 6051-001
Emma Goldman Book
13/25 6051-001
Goldman Correspondence
13/26 6051-001
Howard Zinn Play
13/27 6051-001
Red Emma Outline, Chronology
13/28 6051-001
"Red Emma" Recordings of Audiocassette Tapes
13/29 6051-001
Musical Score
13/30 6051-001
Script for April Reading
April 1987
13/31 6051-001
Red Emma Score and Script
13/32 6051-001
Promo/Publicity - Word
1984
13/33 6051-001
Attendance Record/Payment Record - Word of Mouth
13/34 6051-001
Word of Mouth - Briefly
13/35 6051-001
Media List, Sample Press Packets, Word of Mouth
1985
13/36 6051-001
Word - Thumbnail PR Descriptions and Intros
1988-1989
13/37 6051-001
Word of Mouth
13/38 6051-001
Word of Mouth, Memorabilia, Audiocassette and Tape Recording
13/39 6051-001
"Breaking the Silence" Materials

Accession No. 6051-002: Sue Davidson papers, 1951-2010Return to Top

2.57 (2 boxes including textual materials, photos and two sound cassettes )

Scope and Content: Records and papers from Sue Davidson's work with Feminist Press, political protest activity, Seal Press, and copies of writings published in various journals and publications.

Arrangement: Arranged in 3 series.
  • Series 1, The Feminist Press
  • Series 2, Political Material
  • Series 3, Seal Press
  • Series 4, Writings: Articles, Papers Presented, Creative Writing

Restrictions on Access: No restrictions on access.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator but the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections can grant use permissions.

Acquisition Info: Donated by Erika Davidson Gottfried June 2021.

Container(s) Description Dates
Series 1: The Feminist Press
Box/Folder Accession
1/1 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Phyllis Arlow
1976-2003
1/2 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Jeanne Bracken
1981, undated
1/3-6 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Ranice Crosby
1976-2002
1/7 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Michelina "Mickie" Fitzmaurice
1977-1994
1/8 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Jeanne Ford
1977-1985
1/9 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Merle Froschl
1981-1992
1/10/11 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Brett Harvey
1975-1997
1/12 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Helen (surname?)
1981
1/13 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Carol Levin
1976-1997
1/14 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Katherine (?) Kam Murrin
1980-1985
1/15 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Liz Phillips
1976-2002
1/16 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Elaine Schroeder
1985-1996
1/17 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Susan Trowbridge
1980-1995
1/18 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Alexandra "Sandy" Weinbaum
1980-1991
1/20-21 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Sophie Zimmerman
1976-2001
1/22 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Florence Howe
1971-1974
1/23 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Paul Lauter
1971
2/1 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Authors: Elaine Hedges
1979
2/2 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Authors: Martha "Marty" Kearns
1977-1986
2/3 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Authors: Ethel Phelps
1979-1980
2/4 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Authors: Dorothy Sterling
1977-1999
2/5-6 6051-002
Incoming correspondence: Authors: Ingrid Wendt
1981-2001
2/7 6051-002
Outgoing correspondence to (mostly) Feminist Press colleagues
Scope and Content: Business correspondence mixed with personal and later "Feminist Ex-Press" friends
1975-1985
2/8 6051-002
Outgoing Business correspondence--Feminist Press
1975-1985
2/9 6051-002
The Maimie Papers
1974-1992
2/10 6051-002
Feminist Press--Internal Disagreements and Controversies
1979-1996
2/11 6051-002
"Ex-Press" Memorabilia
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence, photos, party invites, etc.
1979-2004
2/12 6051-002
"'Sue and Sophie Papers' Feminist Press Goodbye Party" tributes in print and recorded on cassette
1980
2/13 6051-002
Goodbye Party for Phyllis Arlow and Merle Froschl
1980
2/14 6051-002
Photographs
Scope and Content: Susan Trowbridge's 1986 visit to Sue Davidson and Alex Gottfried in Seattle, WA, and an undated photograph of some Feminist Press staff or possibly ex-staff
1986, undated
2/15 6051-002
Draft (military conscription) meeting
1980
2/16 6051-002
The Feminist Press--materials
Scope and Content: Includes newsletters, flyers, catalogs
1976-1978
2/17 6051-002
Miscellany
Series 2: Political Material
Box/Folder Accession
2/18 6051-002
Sue Davidson Political Correspondence--Incoming and Outgoing
1950s-1960s
2/19 6051-002
Sue Davidson Political Correspondence--Incoming and Outgoing
1973-1979
2/20 6051-002
Sue Davidson Political Correspondence--Incoming and Outgoing
1980-1989
2/21 6051-002
Sue Davidson Political Correspondence--Incoming and Outgoing
1990-1999
2/22 6051-002
Sue Davidson Political Correspondence--Incoming and Outgoing
2001-2010
2/23 6051-002
Group Health Cooperative Senior Caucus and Related
1999, 2004
2/24 6051-002
Leaflets--Miscellaneous
1960s-2000s
Series 3: Seal Press
Box/Folder Accession
2/25 6051-002
Incoming Correspondence
1980, 1994-1997, undated
2/26 6051-002
Promos and Reviews
Scope and Content: Promos and reviews for Getting the Real Story, A Heart in Politics Changing the Game, Seal Press catalogs
1992-2001
Series 4: Writings: Articles, Papers Presented, Creative Writing
Box/Folder Accession
2/27 6051-002
Booklet: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN NONVIOLENCE?"
Scope and Content: Includes published booklet and manuscript draft
1961-1962
2/28 6051-002
Article: "The Dove and the Hawk" in The Progressive, August 1964
Scope and Content: page 25
1964
2/29 6051-002
Article: "Vindication, Forty-Five Years Later" in The Progressive, April 1986
Scope and Content: page 15; Re: The Gordon Hirabayashi case
1986
2/30 6051-002
Article: "From Russia with Love--Beaches and Badly Buildings" in The Progressiv, June and July 1967
Scope and Content: 2 part article in June/July issues of The Progressive; includes a correction letter and copy of published letter in August 1967 issue
1967
2/31 6051-002
Article: "A story Untold" in WIN [magazine of War Resisters League]
1967?
2/32 6051-002
Article: "Untempered Drive for Justice" in The Commonweath, April 10, 1959
1959
2/33 6051-002
Article: "The Hiroshima Exhibit: Witness for Peace" in The Progressive, August 1963
1963
2/34 6051-002
Article: "Genuine Humor [book review]" in the Commonweal, May 15, 1959
1959
2/35 6051-002
Article: "Seattle's Freedom Patrol" in The Progressive, December 1965
1965
2/36 6051-002
"Cranes and Cathedrals"
Scope and Content: Manuscript for Russia article (longer and with more info than in both--was supposed to be two articles). Account of her trip to the Soviet Union in summer 1966, a tour by the Citizens' Exchange Corps.
1966-1967
2/37 6051-002
Article: "The Seal Press Story" in The Bookwoman, Summer 1986
1986
2/38 6051-002
Article: "Aki Kato Kurose: Portrait of an Activist," in Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. VI, No. 1.
1983
2/39 6051-002
Article: "Liberal Ladies' Beach" in Backbone
1981
2/40 6051-002
Papers presented
Scope and Content: "Conflict: Survival and Change," "Education in Action--A Strategy of Change in a Time of Conflict" with Larry K. Northwood
1969, undated
2/41 6051-002
Collaboration and Correspondence with Alex Gottfried
Scope and Content: "Utopia's Children: An interpretation of three political novels," "Northwest Super-Patriots: New Right in Action," "The 'New' Movement: Peace without Pacifism?," "New Right in Action…," "The Captain and his Kids: New McCarthyism in the Northwest," "To Keep 'The Power of an Idea,' in case its time should come: Some Thoughts on the Current American Peace Movement"
1961-1964
2/42 6051-002
Short Story: "The Habits of the Manatee"
General Notes: Possibly never published
1959-1960
2/43 6051-002
Poem: "Mona's Pause"
1974-1980s
2/44 6051-002
Short Stories: in Serials (copies)
Scope and Content: Includes "The Rivals," "Fin do Mundo," "The City of the Angels," "The Peace Walk"
1951-1959
2/45 6051-002
Book Reviews

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Authors, American--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Civil rights--United States
  • Feminism--United States
  • Feminists--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Pacifism--United States
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
  • Political activists--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Women's rights--United States

Personal Names

  • Davidson, Sue 1925---Archives
  • Pinzer, Maimie 1885-1940. Maimie papers

Corporate Names

  • American Civil Liberties Union
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Feminist Press

Geographical Names

  • Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and government