2007-52

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Creator - Creator
Card, Emily
Title
Emily Card Collection
ID
2007-52
Date [inclusive]
Between 1966 and 1986
Extent
9.0 Cubic feet 9 storage containers
Language
English

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Biographical/Historical note

Emily Card, NC 1963, has maintained a longtime commitment to lobbying for equal credit access for women. As an assistant to Senator Brock of Tennessee, she was the author of the Equal Credit Act; she also worked with HUD to assure equal access to housing. As a professor at the University of Southern California, she researched state and federal credit information. Later, she continued her expertise in the area of finance and credit as a financial columnist for Ms. Magazine, a cable television talk show host, and an author. She was the host of "It's Your Money," a show on Lifetime television, emphasizing women's finances. She has written a number of books, including "Staying Solvent," written as a credit guide for women, and "The Ms. Money Book."

Emily Card, a nationally-recognized author and attorney, has authored or co-authored seven consumer finance books, among them the best-selling Consumer Reports Money Book, Business Capital for Women and The Ms. Money Book. She landed her first paid writing position at age 16 with a column about her local high school in the town newspaper. Her work on the passage of the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act led her to focus on consumers, women and money.

She has written for many publications, including Working Woman, Ms. Magazine (contributing editor) and Self, as well as having been a regular columnist on several Internet sites. USA Today noted that Card was the “first female financial host on television” with her “It’s Your Money,” a 26-part series on LIFETIME. Card holds advanced degrees from Columbia University, the University of California at Los Angeles, Harvard University and Tulane University and a B.A. from Newcomb College. Card maintains a national law and consulting practice, and she has served on several boards. She also has served as a professor of law, business and politics at major universities.

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Scope and Contents note

This collection contains material on a broad range of subjects (1966-2000). The bulk of the material consists of working files for books, magazine articles, television shows, and academic and government research that involved Emily Card. The material might be of particular interest to those researching the United States' policies on women's financial credit, the women's movement in 1970-2000, and Ghana.

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Organization and Arrangement

The material has been placed in storage containers that correspond to the boxes the material was received in. All attempts have been made to preserve original order. All material has been refoldered and some metal fasteners have been removed. Much of the material was received arranged in three-ring folders. This material was removed and placed in folders. If the material in the three-ring folder required more than one folder, the folders were labeled with the same heading and renumbered.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Newcomb Archives

Newcomb Center for Research on Women
Seltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu

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Controlled Access Headings

Geographic Name(s)

  • Ghana

Personal Name(s)

  • Card, Emily

Subject(s)

  • Economics
  • Women's Movement
  • Women's Studies.

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General note

Shelf Location: T4/U4

Damaged by Hurricane Katrina Flooding on 08/30/05

Date Inspected: 01/26/07

Inspector: Stacy Dunn

Description: Only a few files. Minor wrinkling, no other damage. Those discarded were all on thermal fax paper.

Discarded: 14 pages handwritten notes and faxes re: Women in Film event 15 pages handwritten notes and faxes re: estate and inheritance taxes

No Additional Comments

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Collection Inventory

 NAC-178 Series I, Box 1 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet

General note

Federal Reserve System [ca. 1981]

Memos to Sen. Brock [ca. 1973]

Memos to Sen. Brock [ca. 1973]

Equal credit act correspondence and articles [ca. 1973-75]

Kent Bosveen [ca. 1983]

Proceedings of the Symposium women in Economy [1972]

"The Clones" movie release

Women's Working File; correspondence [ca. 1973]

Congressional Publications [ca. 1973]

Equal Credit Act publicity [ca. 1973]

Equal Credit Act working file [ca. 1973]

Subscriptions [ca. 1972-73]

Sen. Joe Biden

Republican Party [ca. 1973]

Sen. Brock's Congressional Reform

Ghana Labor Statistics [ca. 1957-65]

Credit Card Application correspondence [ca. 1971-73]

Equal Credit Act [1973]

Robert Bruce Satterthwait [ca. 1973]

Miscellaneous

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 NAC-179 Series I, Box 2 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet

General note

Equal Credit Act drafts (2 folders)

S.867, S.1604, S.1605, S.2101 (U.S. Senate Bills)

Maps (Virginia and Philadelphia)

Volney J. Steffire

Predicting elections

Response to 1979 HUD mailing

Newspaper clippings

Census data

HUD work [ca. Dec. 1978-Jan. 1979]

Equal Credit Opportunity Bibliography

Carlyn Lynch

Phone and interview notes

Report to President Carter

HUD Foreword [ca. Mar. 1979]

HUD Conclusion [ca. Jan. 1979]

HUD Misc. Information

Washington [ca. Jan 1979]

Washington [ca. Dec 1978]

HUD Project Costs

Marilyn Reed

Credit Research [1979]

HUD Contract

Organizations with Information to Offer

Resource People

HUD Project (general)

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 NAC-180 Series I, Box 3 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet

General note

Book contracts

Media Profile

Harvard Credit Letter

Individual credit Cases

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Background

Credit Correspondence [ca. 1978-79]

Names of D.C. Contacts

New York visit [Jan. 1979]

ECOA Bibliography

ECOA Telephone calls

Higher Education guidelines

Herald examiner [May 14, 1979]

Mailing list

Women and Mortgage Credit Project

Women's Credit Rights Project: Annotated Bibliography

Mortgage Credit Report early drafts

HUD bibliography [1980] (4 folders)

Women's commissions

Ellen David HUD organization survey (4 folders)

Housing discrimination literature

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 NAC-181 Series I, Box 4 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Credit handbooks [ca. 1976-79]

Federal Reserve System Compliance handbook [1979]

Federal Home Loan Bank Board [1978]

Nebraska Credit Information

California Credit Information

Federal Reserve System Credit Information

Puerto Rico Credit Information

State Credit Information

Credit Annotated Bibliography

Credit Legal Research

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 NAC-182 Series I, Box 5 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Long distance phone calls

Ms. money articles

Ms. article: "How to Select a Bank"

Ms. article: "Going in Style"

Ms. article: "Marriage and Money"

Ms. article: "Your money in the Year 2000"

Ms. article: "How to Survive a Money Crisis"

Ms. article: "Tax Law 1984"

Ms. article: "How to Complain and Get What You Want"

Ms. article: "Tips on Tipping"

Seminar on Women's credit Rights [1982]

Women's Credit Rights project; fundraising [1981]

Women's Credit Rights project; fundraising [1980]

TRW Credit Data Offices

It's Your Money Fact Sheets

Child Care Action Day (2 folders)

Miscellaneous

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 NAC-183 Series I, Box 6 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Gloria Steinem's 50th Birthday

Child Care Action Day

Cable Card, Inc. priority lists

Cable Card, Inc. correspondence

Speaking engagements [1983]

Press Release [1979]

Staying Solvent

"Women, Housing Access, and Mortgage Credit"

"A History and evaluation of Tax Code Treatment of Child Care"

KCET: "Investing"

KCET: "Affording Children"

KCET: "Credit"

KCET: "Insurance"

KCET: "Going Independent"

KCET: "Taxes"

Cable Card, Inc. publicity

Highwire Ltd. planning [1982]

Highwire Ltd. planning [1983]

Venture Capital Correspondence

Cable Card, Inc., Informational packet

Credit bulletins

Production for "It's Your Money" (2 folders)

Earthrise-Cable Card, Inc. agreement

"It's Your Money" --final scripts

"It's Your Money" --guest experts

"It's Your Money" --scripts (#'s 14, 17, & 20)

"It's Your Money" --blank forms

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 NAC-184 Series I, Box 7 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Earthrise publicity

Paul Ziffren

Credit Project

Lifetime Television

Memos

American Express Marketing

Cable Card, Inc. agendas

American Political Science Association

Annenburg School Fund

Atari marketing

Personal agendas

Cablevision

Newspaper clippings (2 folders)

Conference Manual

Correspondence (2 folders) [1982-83]

Correspondence [1984]

Correspondence [1986-92] (4 folders)

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 NAC-185 Series I, Box 8 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Ghana election results [date unknown]

"It's Your Money" (4 folders)

Credit Guide -- Ms. edited copy (3 folders)

Credit Guide -- copyedited version (4 folders)

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 NAC-186 Series I, Box 9 of 9   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Kit

Emily Card Portfolio and resume

Correspondence Notebook

Baby "M" Case -- law articles, 3 drafts

Audio tape collection on AARP & Equal Credit Act

Notebook for Three Money Basics: The Ms. Book of Financial Strategy

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 NAC 199 Series II, NAC 199 (originally Box 1 of 3) - Original Senate Material: Ec: Newcomb   3 boxes

NAC 199 (originally Box 1 of 3)

File Name and Description:

"Background Material": NOW booklet on "Women and Credit."

"Duplicate MEGA Material": January 28, 1969: Letter from Fred B. Rooney regarding social services; copy of Federal Register: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Service Programs for Families and Children and for the Aged, Blind, or Disabled.

"s. 652, Leg. History, 92nd Congress, 2nd Session": Copy of the Fair Credit Billing (1971): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, 92nd Congress, First Session on s. 652; April 27, 1972 Congressional Record.

"Truth in Lending Act (1968)": Public Law 90-321, 90th Congress, s.5, May 29, 1968; Public Law 91-508, 91st Congress, H.R. 15073, October 26, 1970.

"Documents Used in Preparing Committee Report": letters from people in public to BB about their experiences in trying to get credit, only to be denied.

"Cloning": Paper: "AAAS Washington Meeting (December 27, 1972)"; "Hazards of Introducing New Varieties" paper.

"National Commission on Consumer Finance": document: "Consumer Credit in the U.S.: Report of the National Commission on Consumer Finance"; different Senators' and Congressmen's views on the Commission's report.

"Senator Brock, Correspondence concerning job, 1972-73": EC's correspondence to BB concerning fellowship job.

"Title VIII Amendment": letter from EC to Harry B. Lettell; BB's draft of the Title VIII Bill in Senate.

"Blank folder": BB's April 17, April 29, May 31, June 28 and July 23, 1973 news releases; report: "Discrimination in Credit Granting on Account of Sex or Marital Status"; memos to BB from EC; Floor summary, s. 2101, Title III; April 17, 1973

"Writing Work File": U.S. Department of Labor "The Myth and the Reality" fact sheet; A Legislative Agenda for the 93rd Congress; WEAL (Women's Equity Action League) Washington Report (January 8, 1973).

"Memos for Senator Brock": EC's February 15, 1973 memo to BB re: suggested General Policy on Women.

"1st Drawer, Attachment to Credit Memos file - official documents": February 15, March 27, 1973 Congressional Record; various articles on women and credit; H.R. 5414.

"Working Mother's Day": Child Card Action Bulletin (March 26, 1973); news release from the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Tuesday, March 27, 1973).

"Social Services Cuts - HEW 1973": EC's February 21, 1973 memo to BB re: Suggested stance on HEW rule-making.

"HEW Copies - March 6, 1977": Fred E. Friend's letter to BB re: Friend's response to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's proposed regulations for social service programs; BB's general letter to members of public about the proposed social service regulations; March 15, 1973 Congressional Record; BB's letter to Casper Weinberger; EC's memo to State staff re: Proposed HEW Regulations on Social Services Under Title IV A; March 7, 1973 news release; S. 1220.

"Women as Economic Equals": Pamphlets and information from the conference on March 21, 1973.

"Brock's File, Letters on Mortgage Discrimination, March 22, 1973": various letters to BB from women who were denied credit from banks.

"Chapter (2)": various newspaper articles on women and credit; April 17, July 23, 1973 Congressional Record; EC memos to BB re: credit bills, summary of points on credit amendments; April 17, 1973 news release; BB's "Dear Colleague" letter about s.1605; statement from the American Bankers Association about discrimination in lending by reason of sex or marital status; s. 1605.

"Press Kits: Credit, April 17, 1973": April 17, 1973 Congressional Record.

"Official Documents Pulled from File 5 in 2nd Drawer": April 17, June 19, 1973 Congressional Record; Fact sheet on ECOA, 2101, Title III.

"Credit Press Releases, April 29, 1973": April 29 news release.

"Credit news coverage": Women Today newsletter (April 30, 1973).

"Dear Colleague: s. 1604- Credit Discrimination": Dear Colleague letter about s.1604 (May 17, 1973).

"Bills Credit": s. 867; H.R. 8163; H.R. 8246.

"EC Misc.": EC's 1973 resume; memos to BB on Suggested General Policy on Women; Credit bills; various newspaper articles on women and credit.

"Letters to do May 14": letter from Joe Bell to EC.

"Republican WM, June 1, 1973": chart: Status of Legislation Affecting Women.

"Credit - Reworks May 22": April 17, 1973 Congressional Record; Public Law 90-284 (90th Congress, H.R. 2516, April 11, 1968); Public Law 90, 231 (90th Congress, s.5, May 29, 1968); Public Law (91st Congress, H.R. 15073, October 26, 1970); The Spokeswoman newsletter (May 15, 1973); EC memo to BB re: Strategy on Credit Bills; Library of Congress report on Women and access to credit; letter from Carl O. Kamp, Jr. to Wright Patman regarding H.R. 246, H.R. 247, and H.R. 248; H.R. 246-248, H.R. 249; H.R. 5414, s. 867; H.R. 4734; H.R. 3374; H.R. 3375; H.R. 3376.

"Credit info: Preparing for Hearings - May 25, 1973": BB's May 17, 1973 "Dear Colleague" Letter; American Bankers Association statement on discrimination in lending by reason of sex or marital status; article on "The Legal Status of Women," booklet: What you ought to know about Truth in Lending and the amendment.

"May 28, 1973- Sen. Brock Briefing": EC's May 22, 1973 memo to BB re: Strategy on Credit Bills; BB's May 17, 1973 news release; EC memo to BB re: HEW Regulations follow-up.

"Official Documents from Contents File 1, 2nd Drawer": H.R. 8163; Statement of Shelden Feldman, Asst. Director for Special Statutes, FTC, on the Truth in Lending Act, Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives (July 26, 1973); April 11, 1973 Congressional Record; Library of Congress report on "Sex Discrimination: Effects of Proposed Federal Legislation on State Community Property Laws, with Special Reference to Louisiana."

"Credit Press Releases, May 31, 1973": May 31, 1973 news release.

"May 31, 1973": March 14, 1973 Congressional Record; chart: A Comparison of Major Federal Child Care Proposals; document: Summary of Pending Legislation Relating to Day Care and Child Development (92nd Congress).

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Series III, Box 1 of 14 

General note

WIF---finances 1988

Tax forms, tax instructions---1988

“The Source” computer information mags- 1988

“It’s Your Money” paraphernalia packet

Ads in various newspapers for Emily Card- 1985

Various copies of U.S. statistics

Postcard form Ghana 1967

W.W.II address book given to Emily

1986---tax collection notification

Newspaper article on home video

HWPC: thirtieth anniversary book

Red Notebook: ‘4’, ‘child care fed policy’---ca. 1980-1986

Red Notebook: financial activities and sales---1983-84

Red Notebook: “It’s Your Money” paraphernalia---ca. late 1970s- early 1980s

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Series III, Box 2 of 14 

General note

Business Capital for Women (1994-1995) By: Emily Card and Adam Miller

Manuscripts

Fax transmissions concerning book

Format Plans

Order Forms

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Series III, Box 3 of 14 

General note

Business Capital for Women (1994-1995)b: Emily Card & Adam Miller

Ledited frontmatter

Type edited manuscript

Completed manuscript

Old Texts (outline, table of contents, overview)

Several completed manuscripts with handwritten comments

Two bound manuscripts

Manuscript in blue three ring binder

Article clipping: “Early Retirement? You’re in for Some Surprises” by: Laurence I. Barret (Dec. 1994- Jan. 1995)

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Series III, Box 4 of 14 

General note

Assorted correspondence about book

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Series III, Box 5 of 14 

General note

The New Heirs by: Emily Card & Adam Miller

Introduction

Draft with handwritten comments

Article research listing: “Managing Inherited Wealth”

Annotated table of contents

Draft without comments

Manuscript without comments

Fax from Denise Marcil (Aug. 21, 1994)

Manuscript with handwritten comments

Two complete manuscripts with post-it note dividers indicating comments

Two boxed manuscripts

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Series III, Box 6 of 14 

General note

“The Politics of Underdevelopment: From Voluntary Association to Party Auxiliaries in Ghana” by: Emily Card (submitted for degree in Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University, -front page signed “To Mama-April 12, 1972 With Love from Emily”)

Gray binder containing notes and letters from Emily Card’s “Staying Solvent” tour (March 25-April 22 1985)

Two large red binders, Spring 1981, containing notes and readings from public policy course entitled “Uses of History” at the Kennedy school

1991-1992 Directory and Handbook published by the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association

1988 Los Angeles Directory of Women’s Organizations

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Series III, Box 7 of 14 

General note

Managing Your Inheritance by: Emily Card & Adam Miller (copyright 1996)

Files on stages of production:

-completed book

-unrevised proof of book

-proof of book without binding

-“printer’s set” (Nov. 1996)

-“index”

-“master set 1st pass” (July 1995)

-“master set 3rd pass” (Nov. 1996)

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Series III, Box 8 of 14 

General note

Stages of production, “Managing Your Inheritance” (copyright 1996), second set -“master set 2nd pass” (Oct. 1995)

-“master set 2nd pass” (Nov. 1995)

-“master set 1st pass” (Oct. 1996)

-original “Bound Gallery”

-“composition layouts-for reference” (June 1995)

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Series III, Box 9 of 14 

General note

Materials on the book, Staying Solvent (1982-1986)

-marketing plan

-tour

-lectures

-party

-public relations

-reviews

-brochure mailing

Notebook: (1985) Information on Reagan’s tax reform proposals

Notebook: (1983-1984) Financial and Legal strategies for “It’s Your Money” (cable television program)

Notebook: (1983-1984) “It’s Your Money” (cable television program) brief show outlines

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Series III, Box 10 of 14 

General note

Notebook: Highwire, Ltd. (1982)---contains consulting work which Card did for the company

Notebook: “It’s Your Money” scripts (#1-26)---(1982-83)

Notebook: inquiry and telephone interviews for Women’s Credit rights project (1982-83)

Notebook: Highwire, Ltd. (1982)---business plan, financial forecast, consulting memos, forms developed

Notebook: “It’s Your Money” scripts (#1-26)---(1982-83)

Financial Fitness: Dr. Emily Card’s Money Guide proposal

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Series III, Box 11 of 14 

General note

Single Parent’s Money Guide by: Emily Card and Christine Kelly

-early draft

-1995 draft

-later draft with page numbers

-december 1995 draft (bound)

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Series III, Box 12 of 14 

General note

Organizational and financial information on sales and consultant work

Women in Film (1987-1989)

-correspondence

-board minutes

-organizational notes

Equal Credit Opportunity

-notes/regulations

-hotline notes

-Book: Draft, proposal notes

Women and Credit

-The Planning Institute (Emily Card, Director -resume

-management proposals

-work plans

-Large Black notebook “TAX REFORM”

-outline, interviews, sources, facts, past articles

-Coalition of Women and Taxes

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Series III, Box 13 of 14 

General note

-Domini Social Index Portfolio (1994-1995)

-investment advisory agreement

-articles on advising

-agenda for meeting of board of trustees

-Domini Social Equity Fund (1994-1995)

-Review of Distribution and Administrative Services (plans and agreements)

-agenda for meeting of board of trustees

-business license applications

-articles (late 1980s through early 1990s pertaining to Capital for Women)

-small white notebook (1995)

-book titles, articles, and statistics to research Capital for Women

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Series III, Box 14 of 14 

General note

“Consumer’s Union…Women Writers Workshop”(1985-1986)

Samples of Card’s writing; background information for writing, writing given to Card to edit

Notes on Emily Card in ‘It’s Your Money’” (1983-1984)

Plans and agreements made for the show “It’s Your Money”

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