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Gibson-Ferrey, Dorothy

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1917-

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Dorothy Gibson-Ferrey oral history interview, May 9, 1996

 Item — Othertype Oral History
Scope and Contents note Interviewed by Dana Van Tilborg. Dorothy Wiggins Gibson-Ferry begins her oral history with a fascinating account of life in interwar New England. Her father was a painter, her mother an early English Suffragette, and her family interacted actors, artists, and writers. Gibson-Ferry says that she became politically active in 1973: After volunteering for the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services for a number of years, she was asked to serve as the first chairperson for the...
Dates: May 9, 1996

Dorothy Gibson-Ferrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: W007
Abstract:

Dorothy Gibson-Ferrey was elected in 1972 as the first Chairperson of the reformed Georgia Commission on the Status of Women, having served on the board of the Fulton County Department of Children and Youth and the Georgia Committee on Crime and Delinquency. The bulk of the collection relates to her service on the Georgia Commission on the Status of Women, 1971-1992, and her work on the Equal Rights Amendment and with ERA Georgia.

Dates: circa 1968-1995; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1983

Jeffrey Gordon Jones papers

 Collection
Identifier: W009
Abstract:

Jeffrey Gordon Jones has worked as a software engineer and a research scientist (1979-1992) and as a part-time instructor in the History Department at Georgia State University (September 1995-March 1996). The Jeffrey G. Jones Collection consists of research materials collected by Jones from 1993 to 1995 in the process of writing his thesis, Georgia and the ERA, for his master's degree in history at Georgia State University.

Dates: 1993-1995

Oral history interview abstracts -- Gibson-Ferrey, Dorothy and Jeanne Cahill, March 6, 1995

 File — Box 2: Series I, Folder: 4
Identifier: I
Scope and Content of the Papers From the Collection: The Jeffrey G. Jones Collection consists of research materials collected by Jones from 1993 to 1995 in the process of writing his thesis, Georgia and the ERA, for his master's degree in history at Georgia State University. Included are a copy of the thesis, items related to its completion (list of deadlines, thesis prospectus, procedures for conducting oral history interviews, and a computer diskette of research notes), and research files compiled...
Dates: March 6, 1995

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Atlanta (Ga.) 2
Equal rights amendments 2
Family violence 1
Feminism 1
Georgia 1