- Collection:
- Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives
- Title:
- Elaine Wiggins Lester, City Council [button], circa 1979
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1979
- Subject:
- Women--Political activity
Women political candidates
City council members - People:
- Lester, Elaine Wiggins
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- information artifacts
buttons (information artifacts) - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Beth Susan Schapiro (born 1949), political consultant, feminist and social activist, obtained degrees from the University of Maryland (1971, B.S. in education) and Emory University(M.A., Ph.D., 1977; 1979, in political science). From 1971-1979, she taught in both public and private schools and colleges. Schapiro was active and held offices with several Georgia and national organizations including the Feminist Action Alliance, Inc., ERA Georgia,Inc. (formerly Georgia Council for the ERA), the Women's Political Caucus, and Women Business Owners, Inc. She was a founding member of the Atlanta Women's Foundation and a member of the Leadership Atlanta Board of Trustees. Schapiro was a strategist for numerous political candidates in Georgia and elsewhere, and her clients included many firsts, first woman, Black, Hispanic, Asian-American and/or openly gay candidate elected to a particular office. In addition to holding several appointed positions on both the local and state levels, Schapiro was Executive Director of Research Atlanta, 1981-1984, and began Beth Schapiro and Associates, a polling and strategic consulting firm in Atlanta,Georgia in 1984. She has run the firm, now The Schapiro Group, Inc., ever since. In addition to other awards and honors, Beth Schapiro was inducted into the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers in 1994 and was selected as Georgia Equality's Queen of the Political Jungle in 2003. In 2009, she was honored as SHERO of the Year by the Georgia State University Women's Collection.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/coles/id/1775
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/coles:1775/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: W002_artifacts_017, Beth S. Schapiro papers, Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Original Collection:
- SERIES VII: Artifacts
Beth S. Schapiro papers
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/6
Donna Novak Coles Georgia Women's Movement Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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