American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Lone heart mountain

    A reading of Lone Heart Mountain (Los Angeles, 1972), an autobiographical account by American artist Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899 – 1990) of her experience in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during WWII. Read by Maureen McIlroy in three parts: reel one contains the chapters Prologue, Introduction, Uprooting, Departure, and Lone Heart Mountain; reel…

  • A mersey killing

    An experimental radio production edited and narrated by Mitchell Harding, featuring two high school students at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, CA. The tape was a response to a speech by the Reverend David Noebel on “Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles: The Communist Use of Music.” Several Beatles songs are sprinkled throughout, as well…

  • Women’s liberation: women in prison

    Discussion of the life and conditions in women’s correctional facilities, through the reading of letters, interviews and poetry by women in prison. The letters offer a glimpse of the brutality women face in prison, and also how jails reinforce the racism and sexism found in larger society. The correspondence was authored by Jane Kennedy, who…

  • Women in the revolution

    Gloria Roberts, a Black woman and mother of two children; Winki Takahashi, teacher and native Californian of Japanese and Irish ancestry; and Suad Cano, an Arabian woman married to a Chicano man and who lives in the barrio, discuss the dramatic changes in women’s social status. Moderated by Dorothy Gilden. The discussion touches on the…

  • Margaret Mead talks about the generation gap

    Anthropologist Margaret Mead speaking on March 15, 1971 at University of Southern California about the current generation gap and the need for commitment in the post-college generation.

  • The Rage of a middle-aged college president / Sister Helen Kelly

    Sister Helen Kelly, President of Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, delivers her Baccalaureate Address to the graduating class of 1969. Her talk concerns the Church, the violence of men, and how our indifference leads to the perpetuation of cruelty. Music by Hoyt Axton, “The Epistle.” Introduced by Tom Ritt. Recorded at Immaculate Heart College, Los…

  • Hindsight and foresight

    Six concerned, politically active citizens met to talk about the General Election of November 1966; and specifically about the future of the state of California. They were Ben Leeds, Congressional District Director, California Democratic Council (CDC) and Temporary Chairman of the California Liberal Caucus within the CDC; Lawrence Sherman, former Democratic candidate from the 28th…

  • The Housewife’s handbook of selective promiscuity / interviewed by Fred Haines.

    Maxine Serett, who wrote the book “The Housewife’s Handbook of Selective Promiscuity” under the name Rey Anthony, discusses her book and her ideas concerning sex in modern American life. The book was based on the attitudes towards sex Serett encountered in her own personal life, and she explains that she wrote the book in the…

  • Abortion : is it murder or a woman’s right?

    Panel discussion with: Walter Trinkaus, professor at Loyola University, and President of the Right to Life League; Lana Clarke Phelan, co-author of the Abortion Handbook, and Western Regional Director of Women’s National Organization (NOW); and Rev. J. Hugh Anwyl, minister of the United Church of Christ, and director of Clergy Counseling Service for Problem Pregnancies.…

  • Elizabethan poetry (Episode 10 of 10)

    The final program in the series presents the real songs of the time — readings of poetry and sonnets by Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser and others. Songs and poems heard and recited include How should I your true-love know by Alfred Deller (Ophelia’s song from Shakespeare’s Hamlet), Blame not my lute…