This guide serves as a companion research guide to the Sharing Stories from 1977 Biography Project assigned in your Feminism and Change class.
Each section lists library resources available to you to research the women associated with the 1977 National Women’s Conference (NWC). The NWC was a historic event that brought thousands of people from all races, ethnicities, sexualities, and political ideologies together in Houston, Texas, where they debated resolutions aimed at improving the economic, political, and social status of women in the United States.
In this assignment, you will join 1000+ student contributors nationally who have worked on the Sharing Stories from 1977 website behind-the-scenes since 2017, and continue to do so since its public launch in late 2021.
Learn more about the assignment parameters via the official assignment prompt:
Watch this introductory video to get a sense of your role as a contributor to this project.
View examples of biographies in Discover NWC Stories, where your biography will eventually be published.
Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 by 
Feminists in Politics by 
American women on the move : the inside story of the National Women's Conference, 1977 by 
Notable American Women by 
Sisters of '77Listening to/reading oral histories can also shed light on your subject’s life that texts do not. Oral history collections are often housed at archives and may be digitized and available online. You can also conduct oral histories of NWC participants or their descendants if you learn that they are available and would like to talk.
Here are some suggested sites to start with in your search for oral histories:
Marjorie Randal National Women’s Conference Collection
Contains many important documents including the official NWC report, The Spirit of Houston: The First National Women’s Conference: An Official Report to the President, the Congress and the People of the United States.
The Daily Breakthrough
Published during the NWC. See November 18, 19, 20, 1977.
Use Worldcat to see if your subject has written autobiographies or other published writings that will help you craft their biography and could include details about their life:
