The Laura X Institute will be the teaching arm of Laura’s Social Movements Archives. These archives feature documents, media, and other materials collected by Laura Rand Orthwein, Jr, aka Laura X, over the last fifty years. The collection pertains to the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, and a wide array of precursors and overlapping social justice movements from the second half of the 20th Century.  Special emphasis is placed on Laura X’s work for women’s rights and her successful state-by-state campaign to abolish the legal privilege and exemption for marital and date rape.