American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
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Behavior analysis and children’s learning speed / Michael Commons interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
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The Federalists in the world / Sally Bray interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Sally Bray, who has been a member of the National Council of United World Federalists since 1949, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about the international activities of the Federalists. Mrs. Bray spent six months in Europe in 1951 helping to organize an International Federalist Congress in Rome, and in the following years, had been a…
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Planned parenthood in the ghetto / Emily Lewis and Dr. Edward Lampley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Dr. Edward Lampley and Emily Lewis talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about the problems of birth control work in minority areas. Mrs. Lewis is Clinic Director of the Planned Parenthood Clinics in Alameda County and Dr. Lampley, who has had three years experience in Harlem hospitals, is the new director of the East Oakland Planned…
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The population bomb / Dennis Parnell and Paul Ehrlich interviewed by Al Silbowitz
An interview with Stanford Professor Paul R. Ehrlich (noted population biologist and author of the book titled “The Population Bomb,”) and Professor Dennis Parnell (Catholic scientist and biologist at California State College at Hayward). They talk with Al Silbowitz about the drastic measures called for by the increasingly critical population explosion, and about Pope Paul’s…
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Coming of age in America / Margaret Mead.
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) delivers a talk at Diablo Valley College on the pressures of adolescence in America from an anthropological perspective. She addresses some of the problems teenagers face in the current day, the genesis of these problems, and what one can do about them. This recording is different from BC1042.06 though…
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What is Montessori / Mario Montessori and Lena Wikramaratne interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
WHAT IS MONTESSORI? / Mario Montessori and Lena Wikramaratne interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. Mario Montessori is the son of the founder of the famous Montessori system of education, and Miss Lena Wikramaratne is the West Coast Director of Association Montessori Internationale teacher training program. In this program, they discuss the experimental school for young…
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Shelter for the shelterless / Reverend Glenn Smiley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Reverend Glenn Smiley, Associate Secretary in charge of field work for the Fellowship of Reconciliation about their recent efforts to help provide housing to those in need. They talk about a new program for housing millions worldwide who have no dwellings, building fallout shelters and the threat of nuclear war to…
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Asia’s children / Jack Ling interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Jack Ling is the Public Information Officer for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Asia. During a recent holiday in the Bay Area he discussed, with Elsa Knight Thompson of KPFA, the enormous job UNICEF is attempting in Asia and the achievements made within their limited budget.