Women Together

Throughout the collection of the League of Women Voters Baltimore City are numerous documents that provide context to their initiatives and examples of how their actions directly correlate to the world around them, be it through collaboration or independently. Women Together is the outcome of the women's groups and various businesses of the Baltimore area coming together to create the first Women's Fair in 1973. The significance in creating a safe space for education and communication has gone unmatched due to the commitment of such collaboration by the League of Women Voters and other organizations. By their own articles of incorporation, the organization, Women Together, was created to establish a women's resource center where there was none. Addressing everyday concerns but simultaneously engaging with both public and political issues specifically for the benefit of the female population. "To unify and lend strength to one another where we have mutual goals, still retaining the character and autonomy of the individual groups." [6]

The objects featured below showcase the programming, attendance, and attention the collaboration Women Together has been able to achieve.

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[6] Articles of Incorporation of Women Together, Inc., League of Women Voters of Baltimore City Records, R0061-LWV, Box 15, Folder 28, Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore

National recognition from President Ronald Reagan, suggests that the Women's Fair of Baltimore was no small matter. White House Letter, 1983

Photograph of a group women at one of the early Women's Fairs, which would later receive Presidential recognition. Women's Fair Photograph, circa 1970

This is just one of the many groups of women that supported the Women's Fair alongside the League of Women Voters in Women Together from the earliest days. Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, circa 1970

This brochure from the fifth annual Women's Fair highlights the level of diverse organizations that participated in the Women's Fairs from early days. Women's Fair V Brochure, 1978

Selected programming from the 1979 Women's Fair highlights the many interests incorporated into the Fair. From women's history to LGBTQ+ issues and women's liberation, no subject was off limits. Women's Fair Information, 1979

Mayoral recognition of the tenth anniversary of Women Together and the coalition's accomplishments for the women of Baltimore. Mayoral Proclamation, 1983

Gubernatorial recognition of the Women Together coalition's tenth year of service to women's organizations and devotion to public good. Governor's Proclamation, 1983