COLLECTION INFORMATION FROM
THE STATE OF FLORIDA
BUREAU OF ARCHIVES & RECORDS MANAGEMENT
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RECORD GROUP: 900000
CALL NUMBER: M94- 1
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CREATOR:
Bolton, Roxcy O'Neal.
TITLE:
Papers
DATE:
1956-1999
VOLUME:
11.60 cubic ft.
MEDIUM:
videotapes (VHS)
audiotapes (reel to reel)
ARRANGEMENT:
Correspondence is chronological; subject files and
newspaper clippings are alphabetical.
Photographs, video tapes, and audio tapes are
unarranged.
TERMS GOVERNING USE: No book or movie may be made
from the primary source (non-published) material in this collection without
the express written permission of the donor. It is the responsibility
of the researcher to obtain such written permission as stated above.
BIOGRAPHICAL/
HISTORICAL NOTE:
Roxcy O'Neal Bolton, pioneer feminist, was born in 1926 in Mississippi.
She was a businesswoman and active in Democratic Party organizations.
She married Commander David Bolton U.S.N. who later acted as president
of Men for ERA. In 1966, Bolton helped form Florida's National Organization
for Women, serving as charter president of the Miami Chapter and National
Vice President in 1969. She founded Women in Distress, a non-profit
agency providing emergency housing, rescue service and multi-discipline
assistance to women in situations of personal crisis.
In 1974 she was instrumental in establishing the Rape Treatment Center,
the first of its kind at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. That same
year Bolton organized Florida's first Crime Watch meeting to help stem
crime against women. She has served on many boards and commissions
and has been the recipient of numerous awards relating to her work in women's
rights.
SUMMARY SCOPE NOTE:
This collection consists of the personal papers of Roxcy O'Neal Bolton,
including correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, photographs,
audiotapes, videotapes, and notebooks. The records document Bolton's
role in the women's movement for equal rights, and specifically document
her involvement in the National Organization for Women, the creation of
Women in Distress, and the Rape Treatment Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital
in Miami. The papers document numerous issues of concern to Roxcy
Bolton, both relating specifically to the women's movement and more generally
to human rights and social welfare issues, including abortion rights, rape,
sex discrimination in employment and education, sexual harassment, sexism
in the media, domestic violence, the Equal Rights Amendment, and preserving
and recognizing women's history. The collection includes correspondence
with figures of state and national prominence in the women's movement,
politics, and public life, as well as papers relating to Bolton's personal
and family life.
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