SL 359 ADULT ABUSE REMEDIES ACT (1978-1982)
RECORDS, 1978-1982
23 FOLDERS WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS


The collection documents the effort by the Legal Services of Eastern Missouri to promote the passage in Missouri of a law to protect battered women. The law passed in early 1980, but was found to be unconstitutional by a circuit judge later that year. The Missouri Supreme court upheld the law in 1982. The collection was donated by Pat Martin on April 20, 1993.

SCOPE AND CONTENT
The collection contains correspondence, newsclippings, court briefs and other material relating to the lobbying effort of Legal Services of Missouri between 1978 and the passage of the Adult Abuse Remedies Act in 1980.

FOLDER LIST

1. AARB, first organizational mailing, 1978
2. AARC newsletter, 1978
3. Adult Abuse, record of changes, part I, 1977-1982
4. Adult Abuse, record of changes, part II, 1977-1982
5. After passage information, 1980-1981
6. Candidates questionnaire, 1978
7. Correspondence, 1978-1980
8. Fee for abuse shelters, 1982
9. House bill 498, 1979
10. Legislative organizing work, 1978-1980
11. Lobbying material and voting records, 1979-1980
12. Marital rape, 1979-1980
13. Memos to legislators, 1980
14. Missouri Supreme Court, briefs, 1980-1981
15. New support letters, 1979-1980
16. News releases and media info., 1978-1980
17. Newsclippings, 1978-1981
18. Newsletters and newsletter list, 1979-1980
19. Old support letters, 1978-1980
20. Responses to questionnaire, 1978-1979
21. SB 524, paste-ups, 1979
22. St. Louis Coalition on Adult Abuse, 1979
23. Women's organizations, nd

INDEX

Adult Abuse Remedies Act, 1-23
Battered women, f. 1-23
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, f. 1-23
St. Louis Coalition on Adult Abuse, f. 22

WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
222 THOMAS JEFFERSON LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
8001 NATURAL BRIDGE ROAD
ST. LOUIS, MO 63121

whmc@umsl.edu