Laura Murra founded the Women's History Research Center in 1969 in Berkeley, California. The organization collected materials to document current and historical issues relating to women. It also collected magazines, newsletters and newspapers that were published by or were about women. The Center closed in 1974 due to financial difficulties, but Murra (also known as Laura X) continued to collect resource materials. The collection contains extensive documentation (mostly printed) on the economic and social status of women from 1845-1992. There are subject files with newspaper, magazine clippings and reports; studies and theses on women activists and feminist movements; printed material published by women, women's liberation, peace groups, and Socialist organizations dealing with feminism, peace groups and the Black Panthers.
Additional content for this collection can be found in the "Inventory for collection."