Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action

The Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action is a mostly volunteer, grassroots effort, for using and spreading the principle of history for activist use. Through our catalog, and our larger collection, we have been disseminating and restoring to public awareness some of the founding documents of the Women's Liberation Movement (the WLM), as well as materials that take stock of all the freedom organizing of the 1960s. The Archives for Action emphasizes the distinct power of engaging with primary sources to learn from, analyze, and advance the gains won from past freedom struggles. The name “Redstockings” was coined in 1969 as a union of two traditions: the “bluestocking” label pinned as an insult on feminist women in earlier centuries — and "red" for revolution.