American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982

  • Joan Jara and Quilapayun interviewed by Kathy Jarvis

    Joan Jara, wife of Victor Jara, a Chilean folksinger who was executed during the September 11, 1973 coup d’etat that toppled Salvador Allende; and members of the folksinging group Quilapayun are interviewed by Kathy Jarvis[?]. The folk music as protest weapon is discussed and how the Chilean women have responded to the executions of their…

  • The Klan (Episode 2 of 5, Part 2 of 2)

    The second in a series of five tapes produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program concerns the Ku Klux Klan and features actuality of a KKK rally that was taped with a hidden recorder. |This program is likely identical to BB0685B, which is titled…

  • The demonstrations (Episode 3 of 5)

    The third in a series of five parts produced in 1965 by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program concerns civil rights demonstrations in Tuscaloosa. This series was lightly edited and re-broadcast in July and August 1970 (according to folio) for comparison with her new series (upcoming in September 1970, according to…

  • The older white community (Episode 4 of 5)

    The fourth in a series of five programs produced in 1965 by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program features interviews with older white community members of Tuscaloosa, particularly Ms. Tompkins’ parents. This series was lightly edited and re-broadcast in July and August 1970 (according to folio) for comparison with her new…

  • Helen Caldicott on The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 25, 1978

    WBAI’s Velvet Sledgehammer program for June 25, 1978. Opens with Judie Pasternak giving information about upcoming anti-nuclear protest in NYC as part of the show’s Community Bulletin Board segment, followed by Eileen Zalisk’s Medical News segment. At 00:10:00, Helen Caldicott is interviewed over the phone about her activism against nuclear energy, weapons, and war by…

  • The young people (Episode 5 of 5)

    The fifth in a series of five programs produced in 1965 by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program features interviews with young people in Tuscaloosa, including Ms. Tompkins’ cousins. This series was lightly edited and re-broadcast in July and August 1970 (according to folio) for comparison with her new series (upcoming…

  • Margaret Mead interviewed by Gil Jardine

    Gil Jardine from WBAI’s Drama and Literature Department interviews anthropologist Margaret Mead about the Generation Gap, the subject of her new book, Culture and Commitment. Mead also speaks about other subjects such as love, pot, Woodstock, protest, and the population explosion.

  • The young people (Episode 5 of 5, Part 2 of 2)

    The fifth in a series of five tapes produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program features interviews with young people in Tuscaloosa. |This recording was previously numbered as BB3864.09B.

  • Well, the words have changed anyway (Part 1 of 4)

    In this first program in the series “You must go home again: 1970,” Marcia Tompkins introduces this new series, reads a bit of her recent writing, then plays the first program “Some voices of the town” from her 1965 “You must go home again” series That recording is followed with interviews with her family and…

  • New York Radical Feminists’ talk about the 1971 Rape Speakout

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a 1971 episode of Womankind, hosted by Nanette Rainone. Rainone interviews four members of the New York Radical Feminists (not introduced) about the Rape Speakout they are organizing for January 24, 1971 at St. Clements Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The speakout will consist of testimony by women on…