Collections : [New York State Modern Political Archive]

The file name may be either the administrative unit or function within CACC or the external event or organization with which the materials are primarily concerned. Commonly included records are statements of association with external organizations; agendas for special events; documentation of legal procedures for incorporation of an affiliated organization; prominent events in history and CACC departments and committees. Subject files on associated or affiliated organizations include: Albany Youth Council; regional schools, hospitals and nursing homes; Chapel House; food pantries; Horizon House; Institute for Christian Living; Jail Ministries; NYS Council of Churches; and South Mall Towers.

The Welfare Reform Campaign series is arranged alphabetically by campaign and within each campaign the materials are arranged chronologically.

Graves spent 14 years in the New York State Senate. This series contains political, legislative and personal correspondence sometimes separated by subject, author or location and sometimes filed together in less defined groupings. Also included in this series are Senate bills, campaign materials, reference materials, and political and civic organization materials. As she was no longer in the Assembly and campaigning for a seat in the Senate, Graves' unsuccessful 1932 Senate campaign materials are part of this collection.

The social activism series includes information regarding Vera Michelson's activism with organizations outside of the Capital District Coalition against Apartheid and Racism. This series includes records relating to Cure Violence, SNUG, Urban Grief, and ROOTS (Re-Entry Opportunities and Orientation Toward Success). Michelson devoted her life to these social activism organizations, which often intersected in their missions to address racial discrimination and gun violence in the Capital District. This series includes meeting minutes, correspondence, newspaper articles, and ephemera from the various organizations.

This series documents OCCA's concern with and activities related to solid waste management in Otsego County. Many files document MOSA, the Montgomery-Otsego-Schoharie Solid Waste Management Authority. MOSA files consist mostly of correspondence, news clippings, and reports. They provide detailed documentation of public dissatisfaction with MOSA and Otsego County's legal struggles with the Authority. There are also numerous subject files on solid waste management in other New York State counties, as well as files on general waste management issues.

This series documents issues such as New York State's system for preventive care; preventing unwanted pregnancy; cartoons on reproductive health; syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and other sexually transmitted diseases; sterilization; teenage pregnancy; a news clipping on infant mortality rates; sex education; parental consent; abortion; and family planning services.

This series contains bills that Taylor and other members of the Assembly of the New York State Legislature sponsored. Taylor's most notable bill was the Rose Resolution #106 which she helped introduce to the Assembly in 1954. The bill passed in 1955, making the Rose the national flower of the United States. Taylor, who was the first woman to be named to sit on the Ways and Means Committee in 1953, introduced bills on education law, city tax on gross income, and even a bill that looked at the Trinity Church's corporation power in New York City.

This series consists of Papish's files on Hydro-Quebec's James Bay project and the efforts of activists to stop the project. It includes news clippings, political cartoons, press releases, meeting announcements and minutes, magazine articles, fliers, brochures, and mailings from organizations involved in the campaign to stop James Bay II. These organizations include P.R.O.T.E.C.T., the James Bay Action Network, the James Bay Defense Coalition, the New York James Bay Network, and the Student Environmental Action Coalition. There are also files with background information on the native populations of Quebec, particularly the Cree and Innu populations.

The Subject Files of the New York State Chapter of the National Organization for Women include internal and external correspondence, legal materials, memoranda, clippings, news releases, mailings, pamphlets, booklets, minutes, agendas, financial reports, by-laws, and more. The Subject Files document the structure, function, and activities of the state and local chapters. Present are issues of concern to NOW-NYS on subjects including, but not limited to, abortion and reproductive rights, battered women and domestic violence, children, politics, education (including educational opportunities for women, sexual discrimination), racism, lesbian and gay rights, job training, the Equal Rights Amendment and employment.