Irene B. Hull papers, 1933-2006

Scope and Content: Accession includes material pertaining to Hull's activity/membership in Citizen's Child Care Committee, and Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Comittee, plus personal papers. The Citizens' Child Care Committee series spans 1945-1947 and includes correspondence, meeting minutes, writings, reports, clippings and a transcript from a dialogue between Pearl A. Wanamaker and E. L. Linderman, Washington State Superintendant of Public Instruction. The Grassroots Assembly of Women, Child Care Committee series, 1969-1976, includes historical features, correspondence, legislative files, and clippings. This series also includes a subject file regarding the King County Child Care Coordinating Committee. Personal papers reflect Hull's interest in a variety of social issues, including left wing politics (especially communism), labor, women's issues, and the peace movement. The bulk of the accession consists of mailings, ephemera, newsletters and other material relating to these topics, and spans the years 1953-1986.

Scope and Content: This accession spans 1948-1997 and documents Hull's involvement in labor organizations and peace activism. Personal Papers include correspondence with Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson, congressmen, other politicians, and newspapers editors. Included with her personal papers are writings such as school reports and personal reflections. Hull also collected writings of others, newsletters, clippings, and ephemera. Subject files document her involvement and interest in union coalitions, peace and justice organizations, and several trips she made to Cuba and Russia.

A major series is devoted to the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), with which Hull was involved and served as chair of the Publicity Committee from 1974-1996. The records concern organizing efforts by CLUW and their support for affirmative action for women, and include historical and organizational information such as brochures, correspondence with labor unions, meeting minutes, resolutions and agenda packets from national CLUW conventions, and a small quantity of newsletters, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

The Seattle Rank and File Labor Committee series includes correspondence with labor unions, elected officials and the National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy (NCCTUAD), written statements, resolutions, and newsletters and ephemera concerning the committee's lobbying on behalf of legislation favorable to workers and their anti-war positions. Much of the Committee's work was coordinated with NCCTUAD.

The series on Seattle Women Act for Peace includes correspondence and general mailings, a budget report, a petition to the Joint Senate-House Budget Committee to create a human needs budget, newsletters, and ephemera, from 1971-1997.