Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bernadette Devlin speech on Northern Ireland |
Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947), a leader of the Catholic Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s, gives a speech about the recent history of Northern Ireland since its creation in the 1920's. She also gives a history of religious conflict and the women's peace movement in Northern Ireland. Introduced by Mark Weiss. |
Religion and politics., Peace movement., Women revolutionaries., Speech on Northern Ireland / by Bernadette Devlin.**A, McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin, 1947-, Northern Ireland -- Social conditions., Northern Ireland -- Politics and government., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | WZ0164 | |
| Black music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis ; interviewed by Joan Thornell. |
Joan Thornell interviews Ntozake Shange (1948 - ), poet and playwright, and Thulani Davis (1949 - ), playwright, librettist, and teacher of English at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. for her "Another Perspective" series on the types and development of Black music. Topics discussed include Stevie Wonder, Motown, jazz, the blues, and the differences between poetry and music scenes in certain cities. Many of their insights on music have direct applications to other aspects of American society. Produced at WPFW, Washington, D.C., 1977. Contains sensitive language. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African Americans--Music, Shange, Ntozake., Davis, Thulani. | American Women -- Music and musicians | WZ0210 | Black Music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis (CD) |
| Black women and liberation movements conference (Part 2 only) |
Listening Post: Highlights from the "Black Women and Liberation Movements" Conference, sponsored by Howard University's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, November 8, 1979. Speaker on this reel, Frances Beal, tells of her first teacher and about the history of the SNCC and SCLC. This is reel 2 of 2, reel 1 is missing. |
Beal, Frances, 1940-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American Women | American Women -- Authors and journalists | WZ0293 | |
| Black women of achievement: Stephanie Colbert Hopkins |
Interview with Stephanie Colbert Hopkins, president of Star Step, Inc, a public relations firm. Hopkins, a Black small business owner, discusses her professional and personal successes, the current job market for Black people, and the double stigma she faces as a business owner of being both Black and a woman. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith. Intro of host and guest cut off at beginning. The month's theme for Upstream was Black Women of Achievement. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Black women -- History., African American Women, Business enterprises, Black | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0255.02 | |
| Blacks and the Washington D.C. ballet / Claire Haywood; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan. |
Hosts Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan interview Claire Haywood (d. 1978), artistic director of the Capitol Ballet Company, and co-founder, with Doris Jones, of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. The Jones-Haywood school, was founded in 1941 to give minority children an opportunity to study classical ballet at a time when opportunities were limited for African-American students. She discusses the founding of their school, her NEA-funded teacher-training course, her ballet company, and finding a career in ballet. |
Ballet., Blacks in the performing arts., African American women dancers, Haywood, Claire, -1978, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Dance, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0117 | |
| Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver. |
This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York. She finds herself in her early twenties teaching young kids and struggling with the fact that people don't recognize her as black. Her broken Spanish, light skin and straight hair hide her heritage. She falls in love with a young man who is recovering from drug addiction. Includes actuality and music. Produced by Robert Frazier, operations director of WPFW, and Sigidi Braudy, music director of WPFW. This recording is a duplicate of WZ0268. |
Women, Black., Women authors, Ghettoes., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Oliver, Denise, African American women authors, East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0019 | Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver. (CD) |
| Clips of women's voices and issues |
Tape labeled "Women's" and contains a list of clips related to the women's movement, reproductive rights, etc., beginning with 12-20-79 Activist Kim Klein (Coalition for Medical Rights of women) on IUD's and ending with 1-22-83 10th Anniversary Roe vs. Wade, Roxanne Merryfield. Clips are from various Pacifica stations and are a mixture of actuality, news reports, phone interviews and in-studio commentary. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Radio news programs | American Women -- Reproductive rights, American Women -- Activists | WZ0256 | |
| Coal country women / produced by Mary Kasamatsu |
This is a three-part series on women in Appalachia in the 1970s: mining disasters, their lives as wives and mothers of miners, as miners themselves, and on life in mining country. Produced by Mary Kasamatsu, with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, through National Public Radio's Satellite Program Development Fund. Technical assistance by Moira Rankin and Sharon Shapiro, and editorial assistance from Paul Datmond[sp?] Part 1: "An Ordinary Mornin'" tells the story of the aftermath of a mining disaster. This episode documents the personal impact of the Scotia Mine Disaster as felt by women whose husbands and sons were killed in the explosions at the Scotia Mine in Oven Fork, Kentucky in March 1976. Broadcast on WPFW in 1982 and KPFA, June 5, 1982. Part 2: "Occupation Coal Miner" about women miners in Appalachia, who share their problems and their triumphs and talk about experiences ranging from job discrimination, sexual harassment, and workplace dangers, to the ongoing struggle to balance family responsibility and the demands of rotating shift work in the mines. Broadcast on WPFW in 1982 and KPFA, June 19, 1982. Part 3: "Never Did Run, Ain't Going to Yet": portraits of coal country women. This last episode in the series focuses on coalfield women who have fought and continue to fight to improve the quality of life in their communities. Some of the women featured are long-time labor activist Florence Reece, who wrote the song "Which side are you on?"; Helen Powell, a West Virginia black lung activist; and Betty Anderson, who monitors strip mining and works for tax reform in the coalfields of Tennessee. A common theme of mutual self help runs through each of the women's stories. Broadcast on WPFW in 1982 and KPFA, June 26, 1982. |
Coal mine accidents -- Kentucky, Coal mines and mining, Women coal miners, Scotia Mine Disaster, Oven Fork, Ky., 1976, Women workers., Women labor unionists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reece, Florence, 1900-1986 | American Women -- Work and unions | WZ0299 | |
| Discrimination at work: federal workers and equal opportunity |
On whether the federal government has successfully implemented its own equal opportunity program. Discussion by Roy Johnson, President of Government Employees United Against Racial Descrimination, and Roberto Tobias, General Council of the National Treasury Employees Union, and Mary Jo Binder, Federal Women's Program Coordinator, U.S. Treasury Department. This program was produced by Rob Berlidge[sp?] and Carmen Delle Donne. Series produced December 1976-March 1977 by Carmen Delle Donne. Previously cataloged as WZ0002. |
Working classes -- United States., Minorities -- Employment., Civil service -- United States -- Minority employment., Discrimination in employment -- United States., Discrimination at work : federal workers and equal opportunity / Roy Johnson, Roberto Tobias, and Mary Jo Binder., Sex discrimination against women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0002.01 | |
| Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Hazel Robinson |
"A poet is -- a diary of the soul." Thus begins one of Hazel Robinson's poems and that thought is the theme of this program. Four local poets--Tamu Moore, Erskie Freeman, Mary Greer, and Hazel Robinson--read their poems and talk about how and why and when they write. |
Women poets, Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Grace Cavalieri., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine), African American poets | American Women -- Poetry | WZ0049 |