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Early civil rights movement: a mid-century inventory (Part 2 of 2)
The KPFA programmers found themselves with time left in their allotted slot after John Hope Franklin’s seminar, so they filled that time with 15 minutes of music programming in line with the theme of the seminar. Philip Elwood played blues songs aimed at the Jim Crow condition: “Jim Crow Blues” by Charles “Cow Cow” Davenport,…
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Negro-white relations in the United States (Episode 1 of 4)
Part one of a four-part series wherein the producers present material from the Pacifica Archives, exploring areas of continuing concern. This episode concentrates on various approaches to solutions of race relations problems, documenting racism and the fight for equality in the United States. Includes excerpts of Ronnie Moore of the Congress Of Racial Equality; Reverend…
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Liberty, equality, and fraternity (Episode 3 of 14)
On women’s view of their role in Colonial life. Contains dramatic readings of Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Polly Baker,” excerpts from the letters of Abigail Adams, and Charles Brockden Brown’s “Alcuin: a Dialogue.” Episode three of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959.…
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Lucretia Mott (Episode 4 of 14)
Biographical sketch with dramatization of the life and actions of the feminist abolitionist Lucretia Mott. Contains a dramatization of James and Lucretia Mott hiding from the anti-abolition mob that burned down Philadelphia Hall in 1838 and a dramatic reading of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison’s motions at the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in…
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Revolution (Episode 5 of 14)
On the beginnings of feminist organizing in the mid 19th century, with a dramatization of the first women’s rights convention and Elizabeth Cady Stanton reading a new “Declaration of Independence for Women.” Also contains readings of some of the negative newspaper coverage of the Seneca Falls Convention. This is the fifth episode of fourteen in…
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Whistlin’ girls (Episode 6 of 15)
Dramatization of the Lucy Stone legend and the problems facing women who seek to be heard at public gatherings (ca. 1834). Episode six out of fourteen in the series. The series was written and directed by Virginia Maynard and produced by Maynard and Chuck Levy, narrated by Levy, and engineered by David Talcott. It was…
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Cops and robbers IIIB: Crime and punishment in California
Assemblyman John Vasconcellos of Santa Clara County and Robin Lamson discuss proposed legislation for reducing prison sentences and Lamson’s report “Crime and penalties in California” prepared by the Assembly Office of Research for the Assembly Committee on Criminal Procedure. Herb Kutchins of San Francisco Bail Project moderates. Part 2 of 2.
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The Nineteenth century Minerva (Episode 7 of 14)
Examination of Margaret Fuller and her writings which call for greater women’s rights, including a reading of an excerpt of The Blithesdale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This is the seventh in of the 14-episode series produced and broadcast on KPFA by Virginia Maynard and Charles Levy from 1958 to 1959. The series was written and…
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The Tree of knowledge (Episode 8 of 14)
On the gradual growth of opportunity for women to attain a secondary education during the early 1800s. Contains readings of excerpts from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emilius: or, a treatise on education (1774), John Gregory’s A father’s legacy to his daughters (1761), Thomas Jefferson’s letters to his daughters; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown folks (1869), Alice Stone Blackwell’s…