Aptheker, Bettina

  • Government surveillance and the control of women: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

    This recording contains of excerpts (not complete) of the panel “Government Surveillance and the Control of Women” at the Fifth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The conference was held ca. June 16-18, 1981 at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  Speakers and talks were the following: Blanche Wiesen Cook of John Jay College on…

  • Sentencing of the Berkeley free speech movement defendants

    Speeches and interviews given by Free Speech Movement defendants as they are sentenced, enter, or are released from the Santa Rita detention center for their activities three years prior. Narrator Elsa Knight Thompson explains how on June 12, 1967 the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the Free Speech Movement case, she reads the…

  • Race and class: patriarchal politics and women’s experience / Bettina Aptheker

    The politics of privilege. How does racism work to distort and lessen White women’s lives? Bettina Aptheker, Coordinator of Women’s Studies as U.C. Santa Cruz, spoke in April 1982 at Stanford University as part of the lecture series “Gender, Race and Class in Society,” sponsored by The Center for Research of Women. Aptheker has written…

  • Bettina Aptheker interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    Bettina Aptheker discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson her reasons for being a Communist Party member, her experiences as a young woman, traveling in Europe, and various related subjects. Knight mentions that it has been a year since Sproul Hall and the FSM activities, and asks Aptheker to discuss where she thinks the student movement is…

  • The Free Speech Movement

    A chronology of the student free speech movement in the early 1960s produced by Robin Steinhardt and Philip Maldari for the KPFA 30th anniversary celebration in March 1979. This program uses cuts from the record “Is Freedom Academic?” created by KPFA in late 1964, which features recordings of the rally and sit-in at Sproul Hall,…