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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials documents her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of papers on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Interesting topics include the...

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Investigation of the Atomic Energy Commission at Los Alamos, New Mexico

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Byron S. Miller: "A Law Is Passed-The Atomic Energy Control Act of 1946."

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials documents her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of papers on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Interesting topics include the...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Douglas Collection covers the former congresswoman's life from her early stage career until her death in 1980. Because the bulk of the materials documents her years in Congress, the collection is especially rich in covering events and issues central to the immediate post-World War II era. Due to her service on the Foreign Affairs Committee, there is a large amount of papers on the earliest years of the Cold War and the establishment of the new world order. Interesting topics include the...

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Douglas: "To prohibit discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, or ancestry." 80th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Education and Labor

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Douglas: "Making unlawful the requirement for the payment of a poll tax as a prerequisite to voting in a primary or other election for national officers." 80th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on House Administration

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Douglas: "To authorize and request the President to undertake to mobilize at some convenient place in the United States and adequate number of the world's outstanding experts, and coordinate and utilize their services in a supreme endeavor to discover means of curing and preventing cancer." 80th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Douglas: "For the better assurance of the protection of persons within the several states from mob violence and lynching, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on Judiciary

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Douglas: "To establish a Commission on the legal status of women in the United States, to declare a policy as to distinctions, based on sex, in law and administration, and for other purposes." 80th Congress, 1st Session. Committee on the Judiciary