00512 KATHERINE WOOD TAYLOR: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by David B. Peterson. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

 Finding aid encoded by David B. Peterson, June 14, 2001. Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society Taylor, Katherine Wood. Katherine Wood Taylor papers. 1961-1984. Printed materials, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, speech files, audio cassette recordings, and some correspondence of a Minnesota Republican Party activist and abortion rights advocate. 5.3 cu. ft. (6 boxes). See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. BIOGRAPHY OF KATHERINE WOOD TAYLOR

Katherine Taylor spent at least part of her childhood in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, the fourth of five children born into a military family. She majored in English at the Univesity of Wisconsin, Madison, where she met and married law student John Fox Taylor. She taught school in Stoughton, Wisconsin, during her husband's final year of law school. The Taylors lived for three years in Portage, Wisconsin, where Katherine joined the Republican Women's Club and the "Joe Must Go Club," which opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Taylors and their young daughter Virginia moved to Roseville Minnesota, around 1955.

Taylor served as chairwoman of the Minnesota District 4 Goldwater presidential campaign (1964), and ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Roseville Village Council in 1966 and in 1968. She subsequently became involved in abortion reform, and served as president of the Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy. Her other civic involvements included service on the Roseville Planning Commission.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

The material focuses primarily on abortion-related issues and legislation, and on Taylor's involvement in pro-choice organizations in Minnesota and her interest in abortion issues in other states. There is also some information about her involvement in Senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential election campaign.

The collection includes considerable information about the Abortion Rights Council of Minnesota and the Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy (MCLTP). There are files on other pro-choice groups, Planned Parenthood and population control, political parties and abortion, religious groups and abortion, and the legal case of Dr. Jane Hodgson, St. Paul, who performed abortions.

Several folders of material document abortion legislation in the Minnesota Legislature (1967-1982), including some fairly detailed notes made by Mrs. Taylor of legislative committee hearings on abortion.

There are also files on pro-life organizations, particularly the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), and drafts and transcripts of speeches on abortion by Katherine and John Taylor. There are thirteen audio cassette recordings of speeches, legislative hearings, interviews, and radio call-in programs relating to abortion issues.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE PAPERS

These documents are organized into the following sections:

Subject Files Abortion Rights Council of Minnesota Audio Recordings CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Abortion--Law and legislation--Minnesota. Abortion--Law and legislation--United States. Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects. Political campaigns--Minnesota. Presidents--United States--Election--1964. Pro-choice movement--Minnesota. Pro-life movement--Minnesota. Women -- Political activity. Places: Minnesota--Politics and government. Persons: Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-. Hodgson, Jane Elizabeth, 1915-. Organizations: Abortion Rights Council of Minnesota. Birth control. Citizens for Goldwater-Miller Volunteer Committee (Ramsey County, Minn.). Minnesota. Legislature. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy. Minnesota Organization for Repeal of Abortion Laws. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). Types of Documents: Audio cassettes. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Katherine Wood Taylor Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

 Accession Information:

Accession number: 13,387; 13,863; 15,625.

 Processing Information:

Processed by: Kathryn A. Johnson, September 1984 and August 1987; David B. Peterson, June 2001.

Catalog ID number: 09-00322601

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION Subject Files 149.F.4.4F 1 Abortion Counseling Service of Minnesota, 1970-1974. Abortion Rights Council of Minnesota, 1973-1982. 2 folders. Association for the Study of Abortion, Inc., 1967-1972.

Includes a folder entitled Case Histories.

 Biographical data, undated and 1970. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1969-1978. Goldwater presidential campaign, 1964. 2 folders.

Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, campaign literature, Goldwater rally handbills, a book of 100 "Goldwater Trading Stamps," a Goldwater-Miller bumper sticker, directories and lists of Minnesota Goldwater-Miller campaign volunteers, a 1964 campaign materials catalog issued by the Republican National Committee, and other material.

Hodgson, Dr. Jane: Legal case, 1970-1973. Legislation (abortion) Minnesota: Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1967-1973, 1980. 5 folders.

Folder 5 includes some abortion-related case histories (individuals involved not identified).

Committee hearing notes, 1970-1971, 1979-1982. 4 folders. Legislative bills, 1969-1972. Newspaper clippings, 1969-1971. 149.F.4.5B 2 Manuscript draft: Sex, Politics and Religion: The Abortion Story, [ca.1970]. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc.: 1968-1973. Newsletters, 1976, 1978-1984. 4 folders. Newspaper clippings (photocopies), printed and other papers, 1969-1981. Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy (MCLTP):

The name of this group was later changed to Minnesota Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws.

 Bylaws, financial records, membership rosters, minutes, and related papers, 1968-1972. 147.G.1.1B 6 Card file membership list, 1969. 149.F.4.5B 2 Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1968-1973, 1977. 2 folders. Minnesota Council on Family Relations, 1970-1972. Minnesota Department of Health and other agencies, 1968-1973. Minnesota Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (MORAL), undated and 1971-1973.

See also Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy.

National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): Newsletters and communications, 1979-1983. National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL), undated and 1968-1978. National Organization for Women, 1966-1983. Newspaper clippings and magazine articles, undated and 1963-1968. 149.F.4.6F 3 Newspaper clippings and magazine articles, 1969-1972. 9 folders. Planned Parenthood, population control, undated and 1961-1983. 3 folders. Political parties, 1968-1972. Polls and surveys, 1970-1972. Printed materials (miscellaneous) not related to abortion, 1971-1980.

Includes fliers related to protests against the Vietnam War and to efforts to free imprisoned radical Angela Davis.

Printed and near-print materials, undated and 1967-1982. Pro-life groups (except Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life), undated and 1963-1971. Public Education and Research Committee (PERC), 1977-1983. Religious groups, undated and 1967-1983. 149.F.4.7B 4 Speeches: Drafts and notes, [ca.1970]-1982. 2 folders. John Fox Taylor's speeches, undated. Other speakers, 1969-1970. States: Abortion laws, Alaska-Wisconsin, [ca.1969]-1973. Miscellaneous subjects by date, undated and 1962-1984. 3 folders. Abortion Rights Council of Minnesota 149.F.4.7B 4 Organization records by subject: Political action committee, 1981-1983. Political skills workshop: Impact 80, 1980. Project 13: Campaign for Reproductive Rights: Minutes, 1981-1982. Tabloid publication materials, 1983. Subject matter files (may include legislative materials): Amniocentesis and birth defects, 1969-1982. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers by date, 1983. Minnesota Physicians for Choice, 1982. Public opinion polls: Abortion, 1975-1982. Teen pregnancy and abortion, 1978-1983. Miscellaneous subjects, 1978-1980. Legislative files by subject: Abortion in the courts, 1979-1981. Adoption bill, 1979. Brain life/death, 1975-1981. Candidate questionnaires (1978): Miscellaneous. 2 folders. By congressional district: 2nd-7th. 6 folders. 149.F.4.8F 5 By congressional district: 8th. Child abuse, 1965-1971. Constitutional convention regarding abortion, 1978-1980. Family planning, 1979. Hatch Amendment/Human Life Amendment: State and national, 1971, 1981-1982. Health maintenance organizations and abortion, 1981. Legislative sessions, 1981-1983. 4 folders. Materials mailed to legislators, 1978. Medicaid payments for abortions, 1978-1979. Parental notification/consent, 1978-1982. Roll calls, 1977-1980. Transcripts of testimony before legislative committees, 1971, 1978-1983. Wrongful birth legislation, 1981-1982. Legislative files: Other papers: Copies of legislative bills, 1967-1983. 3 folders. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1968-1983. 4 folders. Katherine Taylor's papers: News releases; speaker's bureau information, 1970-1982. Speeches and articles: Research note cards and fragments of notes, undated. 147.G.1.1B 6 Speeches on abortion: Drafts and accompanying papers, [1972?], 1980s. 2 folders. Untitled manuscript on abortion, 1968. Audio Recordings 149.F.4.8F 6 WCCO: Jane Hodgson.

Concerns the legal action against Dr. Hodgson.

KYMN Panel, J & K, undated. Legislature-Pro, undated. WAYL: Abortion talk, Katherine Taylor and McGuire, 1970. House anti-abortion hearing, Hymie Gordon on amniocentesis, undated. Elizabeth Reed: Genetics, June [1971?]; Jay Carr: Abortion rebuttal; Father Marx, House Health and Welfare Committee, Feb. 12, 1971. LeRoy Brown, Catholic Conference: Senate hearings, Feb. 8, 1977; Governor Perpich on Church Beat, March 1977. Katherine Taylor and Nancy Koise, July 9, 1978. Abortion debate: George Perpich v. Darla St. Martin, Sept. 26, 1979. Radio station WJON (St. Cloud): Call-in show with Katherine Taylor, Dec. 7, 1979; Katherine Taylor on Henry Wolf TV show, Jan. 11, 1980. KBEM: K [Katherine Taylor?] interview with Jane Pinsky, NARAL, March 1980.

Cassette appears to be damaged.

Arthur Naftalin program: Katherine Taylor and David O'Steen, March 1981. Dick Pomevalch program: Pro-choice author of Enemies of Choice and Tuition Tax Credit, April 29, 1982.