American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • Blacks and the jury system / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

    A panel discussion on the problems of being Black or Mexican-American under current jury procedures, with Fay Stender, Berkeley attorney, Carl Metoyer, president of the Alameda County Bar Association, Robert Boags, president of the Charles Houston Law Club, and Dr. Philip Good, a statistical consultant who has done research on Black registration. Topics discussed include…

  • Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones poetry reading

    This is a recording of the session during which Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) read from their own poetry at the Negro Writers conference at Asilomar in August 1964. “The Negro writer in the United States” was a five-day seminar hosted by the University of California at Berkeley Extension Program, held at the…

  • Coretta Scott King

    Coretta Scott King (1927 – 2006) delivers a speech on the civil rights movement at a peace march in Central Park, New York on April 27th, 1968. The march took place three weeks after the assassination of King’s husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. King reads from the handwritten notes of her husband’s incomplete speech for…

  • Nikki Bridges interviewed by Sidney Roger

    In this recording, Sidney Roger interviews the wife of labor leader Harry Bridges, Nikki Bridges, Bay Area chairwoman of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, a coalition of women and organizations formed to go to Washington on January 15, 1968 to present their petition to redress grievances against Congress for the continuation of the Vietnam war. Roger…

  • From the cancer journals / Audre Lorde.

    Live readings by poet, activist and essayist Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) from her non-fiction work, The Cancer Journals (Aunt Lute Books, 1980). She starts with personal readings in which she shares her experiences with breast cancer. She warns of the dangers of silence and denial, and how to take action by becoming visible to…

  • Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel

    Readings on national liberation / translated and read by William Mandel. Soviet news stories on world events. Phone-ins. pt.1. story on the escape of Assata Shakur, a Black woman poet, from a U.S. prison. — pt.2. stories about Iranian embassy takeover. — pt.3. phone-ins.

  • 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…

  • A Joyful noise: Ana Perez in concert

    This is a performance by one of the Bay Area’s most talented feminist composer/performers, recorded live at Intersection in San Francisco, September 13, 1972. Perez introduces her band: Rob Woo on lead guitar; Penny Hannah on bass. Songs include A Joyful Noise — Blackie — Lost And Found — Dead End Country — Sea Dream…

  • Sojourner Truth : walking to freedom / produced by Darcell King. (Episode 3 of 7)

    This program tells the life of Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883), African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Prior to the Civil War, Sojourner Truth traveled around the country on foot telling others how she was abused as a slave, how she was sold and exploited, and how she gained her liberty. She began to…

  • Harriet Tubman / produced by Darcell King. (Episode 6 of 7)

    Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and escaped to the North. Not satisfied with her own liberty, she risked her own life and freedom by returning to the South nineteen times to lead over three hundred men, women, and children to liberty by means of the underground railway. This program tells about her life and…