Women journalists.

  • Women reporting on women

    Three feminist journalists who were all involved in coverage of the Houston Women’s Conference discuss the question of whether women journalists can objectively cover women’s issues. The journalists are Anna Quindlen of the New York Times; Ronnie Eldridge, former executive producer for Woman Alive on Channel 13 and candidate for Manhattan Borough President; and Ellen…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 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 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…

  • Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel

    “Hot Type” is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960’s, struggling to get ahead but finding it very difficult. Includes discussion of early women in newspaper 1930’s, movement in 1940’s (because of war) women found jobs, but then pushed back in the 1950’s. By the 1960’s there were less women…

  • Elsa Knight Thompson : a remembrance / produced by Moira Rankin ; edited by Gary Covino ; technical direction by Linda Mack.

    ELSA KNIGHT THOMPSON : A REMEMBRANCE / produced by Moira Rankin| edited by Gary Covino| technical direction by Linda Mack. – Retrospective of her career in radio produced following her death on February 11, 1983. Includes excerpts from her documentaries and from her interviews with James Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, Reyes Lopez Tijerina, Paul Allen,…

  • A conversation with Ella Winter / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

    The internationally known political author and lecturer Ella Winter talks with Elsa Knight Thompson about the changes she finds in the United States since her last visit to this country, which had been in 1962 or 1963. Winter says that the country seems much more outspoken about politics, and much less fearful, in general, about…