Racism.

  • 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…

  • Racism in the Women’s movement (Part 1 only)

    In this program, guests talk about the racism forum “Racism in the Women’s movement: how to fight it,” sponsored by the Women Writers Union and Radical Women, and held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. They are: Suki Durham, member of both organizations, Max Regal, member of the Seattle Radical Women; Ann Finger, organizer…

  • Some voices of the town (Episode 1 of 5)

    The first in a series of five parts produced in 1965 by then-folio editor of WBAI, Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. On this program, some voices from the town of Tuscaloosa are featured. This series was lightly edited and re-broadcast in July and August 1970 (according to folio). This recording opens with…

  • The Klan (Episode 2 of 5)

    The second in a series of five parts produced in 1965 by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program concerns the Ku Klux Klan and features actuality of a KKK meeting that Tompkins taped with a hidden recorder. This part on the Klan (2 tapes) was first broadcast on September 3 and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: February 26, 1982

    Blanche Wiesen Cook hosts. Interview with Ruth Meyers, one of the founders of Women Strike for Peace and a child psychologist and Kathy Engel, poet, co-director of the Fund for Open Information and Accountability who is active in the Anti-Klan Network. The program begins with a call-in from Theresa Funicello of the Downtown Welfare Advocacy…