American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Letters of a woman homesteader (Series title)

    Readings of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming from 1909-1913. The materials used in this program come from “Letters of a woman homesteader” by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Elinore Stewart’s letters were copyrighted by herself and by Atlantic Monthly in 1913. The letters…

  • Women’s liberation and Black civil rights / Catharine R. Stimpson (Episode 1)

    Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on ‘Women’s liberation and Black Civil Rights.” Stimpson, a Literature professor from Barnard College, speaks about the relationship between the Women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement and possible tensions. Contains a very passionate question and answer period with well-known feminist theorists (although their identities are not obvious). Recorded in…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 19, 1977 (Part 3 of 3)

    A Women’s Magazine of the Air, produced by the WBAI Women’s Department, featuring: 1. Hot Flashes, women’s news from the Majority Report; 2. “Woman’s Place,” a story by Irene Yarrow; 3. Kate Millett interviewed by Judy Pasternak and Viv Sutherland.

  • 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.

  • Rape: Susan Brownmiller, Diana Russell and Martha Shelley (Part 1 only)

    Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, and Diana Russell, author of The Politics of Rape: The Victim’s Perspective, are interviewed by Martha Shelley, member of the Feminist Press Collective, author of Crossing the DMV, and long-standing member of the Inez Garcia Defense Group. In this portion of the program, Brownmiller…

  • Lesbian Pride Concert 1978

    Actuality from the 1978 Lesbian Pride Concert held during Lesbian Pride Week ’78, organized by the Lesbian Feminist Liberation, and held at Washington Irving High School, New York City. Performers are Lynne Messinger (Tape 1) and Sirani Avedis (Tapes 2 and 3 (encore)). Alix Dobkin also performed but the Archives does not have recording.

  • Lesbian Pride Concert 1978 (Part 2 of 3)

    This tape was labeled “Lesbian Pride Concert ’78: Sirani Avedis”. It is unclear where in the lineup her performance was and what date the concert was held.

  • Lesbian Pride Concert 1978 (Part 3 of 3)

    This tape was labeled “Lesbian Pride Concert ’78: Sirani Avedis encore”. It is unclear where in the lineup her performance was and what date the concert was held.

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 2, 1980: WREE Seminar on Racism

    Production reel for the July 2, 1980 episode of the Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains excerpts from the Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Seminar on Racism- a conference on racial discrimination (1980). First speaker (unnamed) introduces the seminar. Second speaker (unnamed). The second speaker (unnamed, possibly South African), asking for world to enforce U.N. mandate…