OVERVIEW
Minnesota Historical Society
Citizens for
Community Action (St. Paul, Minn.).
Citizens for Community Action
records.
1969-2003.
Materials in English.
Records of a grassroots, St. Paul-based pro-life group
established to protest the Planned Parenthood Highland Park neighborhood location, which
offered abortions in addition to its other family planning services.
5.5 cubic feet (6 boxes).
See [Detailed Description](a9) for shelf
locations.
HISTORICAL NOTE
Citizens for Community Action had its beginnings in 1976 to oppose a Planned Parenthood
clinic that was to open in the former Jimmy's Restaurant building at 1965 Ford Parkway
in St. Paul. The group for many years continued a program of daily picketing of the
clinic, sidewalk counseling of women visiting the facility, and prayer vigils. They also
conducted an annual memorial service for the unborn. The group campaigned for parents'
rights and abortion restrictions, testified in favor of a state parental notification
bill, and led efforts to institute a fetal disposal ordinance in St. Paul.
The organization announced in March 2003 that it would disband in response to what it
called a flourishing pro-life movement, and that it would merge with Pro-Life Action
Ministries and the Highland Life Care Center. At that time it claimed some 1700 members,
living mostly in the Highland Park, Macalester-Groveland, and Summit Hill neighborhoods
of St. Paul. Attorney John D. Healy, Jr. of St. Paul was the first president of the
organization. The clinic in St. Paul remained the first and only Planned Parenthood
clinic in Minnesota to perform abortions.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Materials include annual meeting and board meeting files, audiocassettes,
videocassettes, photographs, news clippings, pamphlets and brochures, mailings,
correspondence, and other materials. There is information about picketing activities at
the Planned Parenthood clinic, prayer vigils, fund raising, the involvement of local
Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish religious figures in the organization, and an annual
memorial service held by the group.
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota
Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics should search the
catalog using these headings.
Topics:
Abortion -- Minnesota.
Picketing -- Minnesota.
Pro-life movement -- Minnesota.
Persons:
Healy, John D., Jr.
Organizations:
Planned Parenthood of
Minnesota.
Document Types:
Audio cassettes.
Photographs.
Videocassettes.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Citizens
for Community Action (St. Paul, Minn.). Citizens for Community Action records.
Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional
examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,206
Processing Information:
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant
awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Catalog ID number: 007353669
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
129.I.12.6F
Administrative:
Agendas,
1996-2000.
Annual meetings,
1985-2001.
15 folders.
Board meetings,
1983-1999.
6 folders.
Board members,
1996-1998.
City council meetings,
1976.
1 folder and 2 volumes.
Past presidents,
circa 1992.
Memorial services and events:
Annual brunch,
2000.
Annual memorial services:
1983-1989.
13 folders.
129.I.12.7B
1990-2003.
18 folders.
Prayer vigil,
1988-1996.
Special events,
1997-2002.
Subject files:
Actions, rallies, press releases,
undated and 1976-1986.
Advertising,
undated and 1972-1985.
2 folders.
Announcements and workshops,
1984-1989.
2 folders.
Arson news clippings,
1976-1986.
Audit of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota: Annette Levine,
1979-1983.
Booths and workshops name lists,
1988.
Boycotts,
1984-1985.
Brochures,
1984 and 1995-1998.
Butler, Larry,
1993-1994.
Calendars,
1987-1997.
2 folders.
Churches,
undated and 1996-1997.
2 folders.
Citizens for Community Action Network,
1985.
Complaints,
1984.
Constitutional amendment,
1996.
Contributors,
1989-1990.
Correspondence,
1980-2002.
4 folders.
129.I.12.8F
Fund raising,
1980-1988, 1990-1995.
2 folders.
Handouts,
undated and 1984-1985.
History,
1976-1986.
In memory,
circa 2001.
Legal,
1983.
Letters and notes,
1997-2000.
Liberty and Highland bank signs,
1986.
Mailings,
circa 1997.
2 folders.
Media,
undated.
Minnesota Citizen,
1988.
Miscellaneous articles and newsletters,
1998-2002.
News clippings,
undated and 1977-1986.
2 folders.
Newsletters,
undated and 1977, 1980-1989.
Order forms,
undated and 1986.
Originals,
undated and 1984-1988.
Pamphlets,
circa 1995.
2 folders.
Phone forms,
1988-1989.
Picketing,
undated and 1988-1998.
7 folders.
Planned Parenthood,
1984-1996.
Post Office,
1997.
Postal regulations,
1993.
Program and purpose,
1985-1989.
Public relations,
1988-1993.
Thank you,
1996-1997.
Volunteers,
undated and 1991.
Workshop,
1985-1993.
Citizens for Community Action matters:
Abortion funding, pro-family legislators,
1977-1978.
Anti-abortion zoning in other cities,
undated and 1978.
Bills and cases,
undated and 1979.
Candidate surveys,
1978.
Constitutional convention,
1977.
Correspondence,
1979-1980.
Fraser Frenzel fund-raising,
1977.
Family Planning funds for abortion clinics,
1977-1978.
Literature,
1975-1981.
2 folders.
Meeting notes,
1976-1978.
2 folders.
129.I.12.9B
News clippings and correspondence,
1976-1980.
Officers and committees,
1979.
People and Causes: WWTC radio,
1976-1977.
Rebuild clinic,
1977.
Roedler fee dispute,
1969-1978.
Sittard and Associates public relations,
1976-1977.
Demonstrations:
Akron ordinance, contacts with other organizations,
1977-1978.
Media lists,
undated.
Negotiations with Planned Parenthood of Minnesota,
1976-1977.
Newsletters,
1977-1978.
Publicity information and literature,
1976-1978.
Stop donations and grants to Planned Parenthood of Minnesota,
1976-1977.
St. Paul City Council hearings:
Case reports,
1977.
Charitable and organizational,
undated and 1977-1978.
City Council,
1976.
Fund raising materials,
1976-1978.
Planned Parenthood,
1976-1980.
Planned Parenthood v City of St. Paul,
1976.
[ 0.25 cubic feet empty, legal]
129.G.10.8F-1
Sound cassettes:
Small box 1:
Annual meetings,
1994-1995.
3 sound cassettes.
Memorial services,
1983-1995.
19 sound cassettes.
The Apostolate for God's Precious Infants.
Minneapolis, MN: Human Life International Conference,
October 1994.
1 sound cassette.
Corporate Funding of Planned Parenthood.
Pomona, CA: Focus on the Family,
1990.
1 sound cassette.
Critical Look at Planned Parenthood. Mary
Senander,
1981.
2 sound cassettes.
A Day on the Hill. Minneapolis, MN:
Greater Minneapolis Association of Evangelicals [GMAE],
March 1990.
2 sound cassettes.
Dr. George Grant, speaker.
Planned Parenthood. Orlando, FL: National
Right to Life Conference [NRLC],
1983.
1 sound cassette.
Videocassettes:
Annual meetings,
1988-1991.
3 videocassettes (VHS).
Memorial services,
1983-1994.
8 videocassettes (VHS).
If You Care, You'll Be There. Minneapolis,
MN: Minnesota Citizens Concerned For Life [MCCL],
1990.
1 videocassette (VHS) (17 minutes).
Precinct Caucus.
Let Them Live. St. Paul, MN: Citizens for
Community Action,
undated.
1 videocassette (VHS) (1 hour, 7 minutes).
Includes Pro-Life banquet: Dorothy Fleming and Cecil Todd.
Planned Parenthood,
1996.
Thirteen Babies Found in Dumpster at Robbinsdale
Family Clinic.
1987.
1 videocassette (VHS).
Includes news conference and funeral.
Photographs:
Small box 2:
Memorial services,
1983-1987.
129.I.12.10F
Small boxes 3 and 4:
Memorial services,
1988-1996.
Small box 5:
Annual meetings,
undated and 1985-1993.
Demonstrations and picketing,
undated and 1983-1996.
Small box 6:
Other Citizens for Community Action events,
undated and 1983-1996.
Includes National Right to Life Convention (1983), prayer vigils and
demonstrations.