Margaret Snyder Papers

The Margaret Snyder Papers document her involvement with organizations working with African women, including the Kenya and East African Women's Seminars, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the African Training and Research Center for Women, and the United Nations Development Fund for Women. These organizations' development projects often focused on poor and rural women and included programs in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific. Some notable projects include the World Assembly of Youth, International Women's Year, the International Women's Decade, Women and Food Cycle Technologies Project, and the Green Belt Movement.The papers contain correspondence, speeches, photographs, reports, interviews, publications, agendas and meeting minutes, United Nations documents, scrapbooks, conference and seminar papers, financial information, project proposals, brochures, and other material documenting training workshops, research, and fund raising activities.Please see series descriptions in contents list for additional information about individual series.