Denton, Pat
2007-36

Summary Information

Repository
Newcomb Archives
Creator - Compiler
Denton, Pat
Creator - Creator
Denton, Pat
Creator
New Orleans Women in Video.
Title
Pat Denton Collection
ID
2007-36
Date [inclusive]
Between 1976 and 1986
Extent
5.0 Cubic feet 4 cartons, 1 box, and 1 oversized box
Language
English

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Biographical/Historical note

Pat Denton, a Louisiana feminist and activist, worked for many years at the Regional Planning Commission for Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and St. Tammy Parishes.

Her collection spans the years 1972 to 1990 and concerns her work with the Louisiana Women’s Political Caucus. For this group, she served first as the Chair of the State Public Information Committee and then as President from 1982 to 1983. Some of Denton’s accomplishments while involved with the Caucus include the creation of recruitment plans, brochures, and a leadership manual. She also edited the newsletter and provided its photography.

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Scope and Contents note

The scope of the collection represents, in a broad sense, women’s issues during the years between 1972 and 1986. Pat Denton’s collection consists of her notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings of the following issues and organizations: the ERA movement, the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Louisiana Women’s Political Caucus, the National Organization for Women, and many feminist newspapers.

Two projects supervised by Denton are also documented: the ERA’s “New Day and Jazz Funeral Celebration”, which took place on July 3, 1982, and New Orleans Women in Cable’s video production of “Feminist! Are You One?”, which took place in 1986, most of which have been transcribed. Both projects grew from Denton's work as president of New Orleans Women in Cable (1984-1986), which changed its name to New Orleans Women in Video in 1986. Many of the videos are included in the collection. Denton inventoried and transcribed most (if not all) of these videocassettes; her list can be found in FOLDER C-3. Also included in the collection are four audiocassettes, recordings of NOW events in the early 1980s; they have been relocated to the Oral History Collection in the box labeled “Ecc." Interviews for these productions include activists such as Rupert Richardson, Mary Landrieu, Kim Gandy, etc.

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Organization and Arrangement

The collection consists of 4 cartons, 7 boxes, and 3 oversized boxes

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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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Related Materials

Related Archival Materials note

Brown, Dorothy

Keeping the Memories: Louisianans of the 2nd Wave Feminist Movement

Kile, Crystal

Newcomb College Center for Research on Women Records

Olivo, Darlene

Sievers, Linda

Swift, Harriet

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Women's Rights- Louisiana

Personal Name(s)

  • Boggs, Corinne "Lindy" Claiborne
  • Brown, Dorothy
  • Cox, Bland
  • Denton, Pat
  • Gandy, Kim
  • Holeman, Diane
  • Kelso, Iris
  • Kile, Crystal
  • Landrieu, Mary
  • Olivo, Darlene
  • Richardson, Rupert F
  • Rosenzweig, Allen
  • Sievers, Linda H
  • Swift, Harriet

Subject(s)

  • Feminism
  • Politics
  • Women's Issues

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General note

*Used to have accession numbers 94-019, 94-0120 – because the collection needed further processing after another addition by Pat Denton, we gave it a new accession number. The collection also had to be re-boxed, see individual boxes for their old collection numbers.

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Collection Inventory

 NAC 226 Box 1 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Item 1 of 14

Folder A, 1-21 (1972-85):

Materials document correspondence of Pat Denton of Louisiana Women's Political Caucus and National Women's Political Caucus. Also documents the ERA "New Day and Jazz Funeral Celebration." Papers consist of newspaper clippings, Pat Denton's personal notes, and pamphlets.

Folder B, 1-2 (1978-86):

Materials relate to N.O.W. and include newspaper clippings and pamphlets which follow the progress of N.O.W., including the Smeal election.

 NAC 227 Box 2 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Item 2 of 14

Folder C, 1-5 (1979-86):

Contains the documentation of the planning processes for both the ERA "New Day and Jazz Funeral Celebration" and NOWIC's “Feminist! Are You One?" television show. Also included are Denton's calendars, notes, and official correspondence with the participants and music companies' permissions documents. Also included are Denton's transcriptions of the video interviews. A tape transcription inventory list and index is in folder C-3.

 NAC 228 Box 3 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Item 3 of 14

Folder D, 1-3 (1972-86):

Materials cover miscellaneous women's issues: Ferraro campaign, anti-Reagan articles, and miscellaneous pamphlets.

 NAC 229 Box 4 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Item 4 of 14

ERA and Feminist Propaganda: t-shirts, bumper stickers, banners and buttons (ca. 1982)

 NAB 049 Box 5 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Item 5 of 14

ERA and Louisiana/National Women’s Political Caucus materials including information on the Advocacy bureau move, LWPC handooks and reports, National WPC handbooks, Caucus for Art.

 OV 001 Box 6 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box

General note

Item 6 of 14

NOWIC materials including information on the Women in Political Power in Louisiana project and interviews with Lindy Boggs, Dorothy Mae Taylor, etc.

 Ecc-Fis Box 7 of 14   1.0 Cubic feet 1 box with 4 audio cassettes

General note

Item 7 of 14

Contains materials on Dorothy Mae Taylor, Bland Cox Bruns, Pat Denton and miscellaneous women’s information including Women’s Photography Show, etc.

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Box 8 of 14 

General note

Item 8 of 14

NOWIC 3/4” video tapes: Feminist! Are You One? (1985-1986)- Tapes numbered 1-13

Interviews with: Mary Landrieu, Diane Holeman, Iris Kelso, Bland Cox, Kim Gandy, Allen Rosenzweig, Lindy Boggs

Box 9 of 14 

General note

Item 9 of 14

NOWIC 3/4” video tapes: Feminist! Are You One? (1985-1986)- Tapes numbered 14-27

Interviews with: Kim Gandy, Mary Jones, Edwin Edwards, Sylvia Roberts, Maurice Durbin, Rupert Durbin, Rupert Richardson, Diana Bajoie, Dorothy Mae Taylor Graphics and Music on Channels 1 and 2

Box 10 of 14 

General note

Item 10 of 14

NOWIC 3/4” video tapes: Feminist! Are You One? (1985-1986)- Tapes numbered 28-40

Graphics and Sound Effects, May Jones Interview, Graphics, Ferraro Interview, Bathelemy Interview, Judge Anita Ganucheau Interview, Access Sampler (Programs), Feminist! Are You One?, ERA Jazz Funeral – Mary Landrieu, Street Interviews 1 and 2

Box 11 of 14 

General note

Item 11 of 14

Tapes numbered 41-54

Street Interviews 3, Series #9 Dubois, NOW Conference 1985, street interviews from Are You a Feminist?, NOWIC Sampler, Master Feminist! Are You One? Tape, Credits from Feminist!, Pat Denton – Feminist, The Today Show – June 4, 1986, ERA March Tape 1 and 2, Misc. 1992 N.O. City Council Gay Ordinance and speakers

Box 12 of 14 

General note

Item 12 of 14

Various feminist/women's issues newspapers

Distaff:

--1: 1-10, February-December 1973

--2: 1, January 1974

--6: 9-10, November-December 1981

--National NOW Times November/December 1984

--Southern Feminist 2: 3-5, May-October 1985

--Women's Political Times VII:

--4-5, September-December 1982 VIII: 1-4, January-August 1983

Box 13 of 14 

General note

Item 13 of 14

ERA Posters (ca. 1981)

Box 14 of 14 

General note

Item 14 of 14

Photos and Negatives (see Pat Denton Photo Database for listing)