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Elizabeth Ann Fox Martin Meek (1928--2020) was a prominent aerospace educator who, in 1975, filed a successful class action lawsuit against the University of South Alabama on behalf of women faculty and administrators alleging sexual discrimination in pay and benefits. This collection consists of the following items relating to the career of Dr. Elizabeth Martin Meek: the event program for the Crown Circle awards ceremony presented by the 1981 National Congress on Aerospace Education during which Dr. Martin was inducted into the group; a photocopied news clipping from the January 6, 1981 issue of The Mobile Register regarding the sex discrimination lawsuit filed by Dr. Martin on behalf of female faculty and administrators at the University of South Alabama; and the August 9, 1988 issue of The Vanguard, the student newspaper of the University of South Alabama, regarding the final settlement of the lawsuit.

Identifier

NASM.2022.0026

Creator

Martin Meek, Elizabeth Ann Fox, 1928-2020

Date

1981-1988

Provenance

Robert Rand, Gift, 2022, NASM.2022.0026.

Extent

0.02 Cubic feet (1 map folder)

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the following items relating to the career of Dr. Elizabeth Martin Meek: the event program for the Crown Circle awards ceremony presented by the 1981 National Congress on Aerospace Education during which Dr. Martin was inducted into the group; a photocopied news clipping from the January 6, 1981 issue of The Mobile Register regarding the sex discrimination lawsuit filed by Dr. Martin on behalf of female faculty and administrators at the University of South Alabama; and the August 9, 1988 issue of The Vanguard, the student newspaper of the University of South Alabama, regarding the final settlement of the lawsuit.

Arrangement note

Collection is in chronological order.

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Citation

Elizabeth Martin Meek Collection, NASM.2022.0026, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Women in aeronautics

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Programs

Newspaper clippings