The collection includes correspondence and other files related to: the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Annie Jump Cannon Prize, Margaret Burbidge's rejection of the prize in 1971, reactions to the rejection of the prize, the special Cannon Prize Committee established in reaction of the rejection, reactions to the committee's proposed resolution, and AAS's Working Group on the Status of Women, as well as a Physics Today Online article written by Humphreys about the Burbidge's rejection of the prize and the events that followed. Correspondence written by: Margaret Burbidge, Annie Jump Cannon, Frank Bradshaw Wood, Charlotte M. Sitterly, Phyllis S. Freier, Nancy Grace Roman, Kurt W. Riegel, Jerzy Neyman, Emilia Pisani Belserene, James R. Kennedy, Virginia Trimble, Donald Clayton, D. O. Gough, Michael Howard, Martin Rees, William C. Saslaw, Arthur M. Wolfe, Dimitri Mihalas, G. A. Tammann, Benjamin F. Peery Jr., Henry L. Shipman, Margaret W. Mayall, Bill Liller, George W. Preston, Anne Cowley, Helen Hogg, Geoffrey Burbidge, Charles R. Tolbert, Bart J. Bok, Andrea K. Dupree, Beverly T. Lynds, Vera C. Rubin, Robert P. Kraft, and Helmut A. Abt.