Interviews with Felicia G. Bock, Margaret Dumas, Gilda Halpern Feller, Ruth Jackson Ganong, Elizabeth Schickele, and Sally Severance. All are leaders in the League of Women Voters of the Bay Area or the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, and Emeryville.

The League of Women Voters of the Bay Area (LWVBA) Records, 1939-[ongoing], consist of administrative files, program records, and material relating to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the League of Women Voters of the United States and the Women's Suffrage Movement in 1995. Program material includes records of league action, education, and studies relating to regional government, regional planning, air and water quality, environmental mitigation, land use, solid waste, hazardous materials management, economics, housing, and transportation. The records include agreements, Board of Directors records, bylaws, committee records, correspondence, meeting and event material, financial records, policies and procedures, program and project records, and reports. Material in the collection dates from 1939 to 2001, with the bulk dating from 1960 to 1996.

San Francisco has always had an affordable housing problem. Starting in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and ending with the dot-com boom, Housing the City by the Bay considers the history of one proposed answer to the city's ongoing housing crisis: public housing. John Baranski follows the ebbs and flows of San Francisco's public housing program: the Progressive Era and New Deal reforms that led to the creation of the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1938, conflicts over urban renewal and desegregation, and the federal and local efforts to privatize government housing at the turn of the twenty-first century. This history of public housing sheds light on changing attitudes towards liberalism, the welfare state, and the economic and civil rights attached to citizenship. Baranski details the ways San Francisco residents turned to the public housing program to build class-based political movements in a multi-racial city and introduces us to the individuals—community activists, politicians, reformers, and city employees—who were continually forced to seek new strategies to achieve their aims as the winds of federal legislation shifted. Ultimately, Housing the City by the Bay advances the idea that public housing remains a vital part of the social and political landscape, intimately connected to the struggle for economic rights in urban America.