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Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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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) |
Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday. |
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW's Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.'s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled "Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" was being staged. Also includes an interview with Brooks by Grace Cavalieri conducted at WPFW, with Mike Hodge of the Black Repertory Theatre and Noble Lee Lester, who recites a soliloquy from the production. Brooks reads some of her poetry and comments on seeing her work dramatized, on being categorized as a "Black woman poet", and on the potentially creative uses of anger and hatred. Produced by Taliba Holliday, with associate producers Angelo Anthony and Grace Cavalieri. |
Women poets, Cavalieri, Grace, Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anderson, Kathy, Gregory, Angelo, Lester, Noble Lee, African American women poets, D.C. Black Repertory Company | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Theater | WZ0014 | You stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Ialita Holliday. (CD) |
Labor fights for the ERA |
This episode of "Them and Us" is asking "Should labor unions support ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?". Hosts are Carmen Delle Donne and Karen Boyd. Guests are Lizzie Corban, Sarah Nelson, and Susan Holleran. Includes live call-ins. Broadcast 1-19-78 Thursday, 7:00pm-8:00pm. |
Working classes -- United States., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Discrimination in employment -- United States., Radio call-in shows, Women labor unionists., Labor unions, Sex discrimination in employment, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), American Women -- Work and unions | WZ0002.02 | |
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 | |
KPFT Special Women's Day program (1987) |
This tape contains several clips of readings of women's literature or speeches to be used throughout KPFT's 1987 Tribute to Women for International Women's Day. The readings are of the following women: Adrienne Rich, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Reena Rietveld[sp?], Tillie Olsen, Gerda Lerner, Patricia Ann Rodriguez, Barbara Deming, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Geraldine Ferraro, and Carrie Chapman Catt. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, International Women's Day, Feminists, Women's rights -- United States -- History | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Feminism | TZ0083 | |
Jane Fonda and the Indochina Peace Campaign in Houston |
Aircheck of an interview with Jane Fonda of the Indochina Peace Campaign, along with Bob Chenowith, a POW in North Vietnam for five years, and Jean-Pierre Debris, French school teacher arrested in South Vietnam for distributing leaflets and jailed for 2.5 years. The guests note that POWs are being kept in tiger cages in South Vietnam and that more than half the political prisoners were women. Listener phone calls included. With Larry Yurdin, Gail Wilson (a.k.a. Slowly Grail), and Thorne Dreyer of KPFT. |
Fonda, Jane, 1937-, Indochina Peace Campaign (Organization : U.S.), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements | American Women -- Vietnam conflict | TZ0080 | |
Ozark rap: experiences of women in the mid 1930s to the 1960s / produced by Clara Kern |
This is an episode of Clara Kern's special series "Ozark rap." In this program she examines the experiences of the middle 1930s to the 1960s, focusing on the ways in which her mother and aunts translated their rugged early lives into strength for modern-day living. She plays records of "hillbilly music" throughout the program. Produced by Clara Kern. Broadcast July 1981. |
Experiences of the mid 1930s to the 1960s / produced by Clara Kern., Kern, Clara, Women -- United States -- History., Country music., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Rural women | American Women -- Women's history | TZ0031 | |
It's your body / by Dr. Niels Lauersen interviewed by Clara Kern |
Producer Clara Kern interviews Dr. Niels Lauersen on the responsibility and prerogatives of women's health care through his best-selling gynecological guide, "It's your body." Lauersen advises women to take care in selecting a doctor, that people need to be partners with their doctor for health. He also talks specifically about cramps, breast cancer, infertility, and abortion. Broadcast October 1982. |
Medical care -- Quality control., Lauersen, Niels H., Healthcare for women, Women -- Health., Women -- Medical care., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Health | TZ0028 | |
Poems from a woman's experience/ written and read by Clara Kern |
A woman's voice - Features poetry written and read by producer/poet Clara Kern. Broadcast July 1982. (Previously titled "A woman's voice: Circa 40s" with the note: "Circa 40s" meaning the impact of sexual attitudes of the 1940s upon women," however this program doesn't seem to relate to this topic. Probably mislabeled.) |
Women poets, Kern, Clara, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | TZ0027 | |
Voices from the westward journey / compiled by Lillian Schlissel ; produced by Clara Kern. |
In this radio adaptation of "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" compiled by Lillian Schlissel, excerpts from autobiographical accounts are treated as individual voices which view the westward trek from a woman's perspective. All voices are those of producer, Clara Kern. First broadcast July 1982. |
Women -- History., Schlissel, Lillian, Women pioneers, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women's history | TZ0024 |