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Chinese Immigration

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USA Foreign Relations

The Connecticut State Library has federal documents relating to International Relations - from Congress, the State Department, The Office of the President, and other agencies.

See also Cold War and Space Race sub-pages on main History Day guide.

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Primo is the CT State Library catalog. Search for books, articles, and more!

Reproductive Health

The Connecticut State Library has information on various topics, including Griswold v Connecticut.

See also Griswold and Roraback entries under People page.

1923 - Connecticut Birth Control League (CBCL) founded
1935 July - CBCL opened birth control clinic in Hartford, serving married women, who already had at least one child, for medical health. Over the next four years, nine clinic were established across the state.
1939 Waterbury clinic raided, staff arrested
1940 CT Supreme Court of Errors ruled law had no medical exemption.

Resources

These are only a few examples.

Law

1879 CT law
Banned birth control in Connecticut
Comstock Law 17 Stat. 598
"An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, obscene Literature and Articles of immoral Use."
Contraception was included.

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Prohibited U.S. Postal Service from mailing "Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy, or vile article."

Court Cases

Griswold v Connecticut

November 1, 1961, Estelle Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton opened a birth control clinic in New Haven.

1965 - case reached U.S. Supreme Court. June 7th, 1965 decision said Connecticut law violated constitutional right to marital privacy.

Roe v Wade
Doe v Bolton
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)

Articles

Connecticut Women Fight for Reproductive Rights
By Barbara Sicherman. Connecticut Explored Inc., Fall 2017
Birth Control and Zones of Privacy
By Walter W. Woodward. Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2014 Volume 12 Number 4

We have a trial for a database - but you will need a card from us.

Labor Laws

We have many resources.

Books, Documents, etc.

State Laws Affecting Working Women : Supplement to Bulletin 16 ... Changes since 1921 in State Laws Affecting Women's Hours and Wages
Call Number: online and Fed Docs L 13.3:

Publication Date: 1923

Online through our catalog - scroll through record for link
Women in Gainful Occupations, 1870 to 1920. A Study of the Trend of Recent Changes in the Numbers, Occupational Distribution, and Family Relationship of Women Reported in the Census as following a Gainful Occupation
Call Number: online and Federal Documents C 3.30:9

Publication Date: 1929
Women at Work : A Century of Industrial Change
Call Number: online and 1933 edition at Fed Docs L 13.3:

Publication Date: 1939

Other Institutions

Laws Affecting Women And Children In The Suffrage And Non-Suffrage States
1917 digitized book at Library of Congress (LOC)

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LOC: "This book examines women's legal status in the areas of protective labor legislation for women and children, minimum wage laws, mothers' pensions, the property rights of married women, child custody, age of consent, control of the liquor traffic, and prostitution. Like Jessie Cassidy's "The legal status of women," this volume deals with each of these areas on a state-by-state basis. It includes a black-and-white pinwheel chart showing good and bad legislation affecting women, but few other tables or graphs."

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