American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • The Passionate Theatre: Uta Hagen (Part 2 of 2)

    Interview with actress and teacher, Uta Hagen. Marjorie DeFazio talks with actors, directors, and writers in search of the passionate theater.

  • Florynce Kennedy speaks at Memorial Church in New York City

    Flo (Florynce) Kennedy (1916-2000) speech given at “Memorial Church [New York City]” advocating peace activism. [Unclear from label of location–Judson Memorial Church? Memorial Baptist Church?] Theme of the meeting is “Swords into Plowshares.” She promotes personal powers of the body, dollar, and vote to change the pathology of oppression and the oppressive system. She uses…

  • Adrienne Rich reading her poetry at the Women’s Experimental Theater

    Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) reads her poetry at Women’s Experimental Theater in New York City. Sondra Segal comments on the Theater’s play “The Daughter’s Cycle” and the current theme, “Woman’s Body and Other Natural Resources.” Clare Coss introduces Rich. Rich reads from her current book of poetry, “A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems…

  • An interview with Robert Shelton (Part 2 of 4)

    This is the second of four programs produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. In this program she interviews Robert Shelton of the Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux…

  • Four people of the town (Part 3 of 4)

    This is the third of four programs produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. This program presents a sort of “voice portrait” of four people who are active and…

  • Phone-in questions (Part 4 of 4)

    This is the fourth and final program produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. In this live program, Tompkins answers questions from call-in listeners, but first plays a 15…

  • Gloria Naylor interviewed about her novel The Women of Brewster Place

    Raw tape of Gloria Naylor, Black woman author, interviewed by Doris Austin[?] about her novel “The Women of Brewster Place.” She reads a passage from the book and then talks with Doris about the book, how Naylor’s visions of the women who populate the book came into being, and more specifically about some of the…

  • 1981 Abortion Rally in New York City

    Speakers at a rally in New York City on abortion and equal rights for women, circa June 1981. Speakers include Carolina Castillo, representative of the Executive Council of the General Association of Salvadoran University Students (in Spanish, with English translation); an unidentified speaker who discusses upcoming ERA rally in front of the New York Public…

  • Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom conference, 1981

    Two speakers at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom conference, recorded May 27, 1981. Joanna [no last name given] on U.S. strategic policy and its impact on Europe; 24:00–Edith Ballantyne, General Secretary for the League Office in Geneva, Switzerland speaks about her European perspective on the U.S. armament policy.

  • Women’s Pentagon Action Rally

    Banded reel of actuality from the Women’s Pentagon Action on November 17, 1980, held in Washington, D.C, during which over two thousand women surrounded the Pentagon to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the destruction of the Earth and the oppression of women. Begins with a reading of the Statement of Purpose for the Action…