Consumer Reports. Sybil Shainwald papers, 1929-2012

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Summary

Creator:
Consumer Reports (Firm)
Abstract:
Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Sybil Shainwald is an educator and lawyer who founded and then served as the Director of the Center for the Study of the Consumer Movement at Consumers Union from 1972-1978. The Sybil Shainwald papers include correspondence, clippings, articles, advocacy reports, administrative files, program brochures and other materials. Topics represented include women's health; the establishment of centers for the study of consumer advocates; and history of the consumer movement. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
Extent:
0.6 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11855

Background

Scope and content:

The Sybil Shainwald papers include correspondence, clippings, articles, advocacy reports, administrative files, program brochures and other materials. Topics represented include women's health; the establishment of centers for the study of consumer advocates; and history of the consumer movement.

Biographical / historical:

Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. Sybil Shainwald is an educator and lawyer who founded and then served as the Director of the Center for the Study of the Consumer Movement at Consumers Union from 1972-1978. Shainwald was born in 1928 in New York. She attended William and Mary College (BA History, 1948) and worked in New York as a teacher and Title I Reading Program administrator from 1954-1968. Shainwald returned to graduate school at Columbia University (Masters in Political Science, 1972) and later received a law degree from the New York Law School. During that time Shainwald joined Consumers Union and helped to secure NEH grant funding to establish the Center for the Study of the Consumer Movement which she directed until 1978, when she left Consumers Union to go into legal practice.

Acquisition information:
The Consumer Reports. Sybil Shainwald papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Richard Collier, Sept. 2020;

Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130.

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Organized alphabetically.

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Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Subjects:
Consumer education
Consumer advocacy
Consumers -- United States
Names:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History
Consumers Union Foundation. Center for the Study of the Consumer Movement
Shainwald, Sybil

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[Identification of item], Consumer Reports. Sybil Shainwald papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.