Abstract Publications and other materials relating to women and feminism compiled by Julia M. Allen, including newsletters of A Woman's Place, a feminist bookstore in Portland, Oregon; issues of the women's art and literature magazine Calyx; and flyers and posters for events. Allen was a graduate student and then professor at Portland State University in the 1970s and 1980s, and helped to establish the Women's Studies Certificate Program there. Students in the program organized or participated in...

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Oral history interview with Helen Nickum, conducted by Gregory Karnes in seven sessions, from January 25 to April 7, 2011, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Nickum talks about her career as a secretary in Portland, Oregon, and in Washington, D.C.; about her involvement in a sex-discrimination class action lawsuit; and about her work as executive secretary for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757.