American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • Sadie and Maude / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor

    In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant, and a poem titled “Inside the Church of the People” by an anonymous poet. Black…

  • Women in the revolution

    Gloria Roberts, a Black woman and mother of two children; Winki Takahashi, teacher and native Californian of Japanese and Irish ancestry; and Suad Cano, an Arabian woman married to a Chicano man and who lives in the barrio, discuss the dramatic changes in women’s social status. Moderated by Dorothy Gilden. The discussion touches on the…

  • Black awareness – Black political prisoners in New York / Deloris Costello

    Commentary series on Black issues. This episode focuses on Black political prisoners in New York City. Guests are Mrs. Marva Berry, wife of Lee Berry one of the Panther 21, currently in Bellevue Hospital; and Gerald Lefcourt, one of the lawyers for the Panther 21. Lee Berry was a Vietnam veteran, and an epileptic. He…

  • Relevant theater of the now / Leslie Perry interviewed by Eleanor Sully

    Eleanor Sully interviews Leslie Perry, Black playwright and director, about his commitment to changing the order of things – not only in the theatre; but as Mr. Perry indicates, since theatre is his thing, he’s trying to make it “a relevant theatre of NOW.” Perry discusses his production of “The Mock Trial Of Huey Newton”…

  • Conversation with June Jordan / interviewed by Julius Lester.

    Julius Lester speaks with poet and activist June Jordan (introduced as June Meyer, b. July 9, 1936, d.June 14, 2002) about her writing, life, politics and she reads “Solidarity Day, 1968”, “Christ Chicago, 1968”, and “Uhuru in the O.R.” New tape box, no info.

  • Harlem township / Herb Lambright, Kay Lindsey, and Flo Kennedy.

    Herb Lambright, writer and photographer, and Florynce “Flo” Kennedy, attorney and director of Media Workshop, discuss the origins of Harlem and its illegal absorption into New York City. Both guests argue that Harlem is a township, not part of New York City, and should therefore be granted the right to self-determination. They further assert that…

  • The role of the Black woman in America / moderated by Ed Cumberpatch ; produced by Kay Lindsay.

    Four Black women–Peachie Brooks, housewife and mother of five living in Brownsville, NY; Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, mother, actress, and Temple University and Sorbonne alum who has lived in New York and Paris; Florynce “Flo” Kennedy, attorney, director of Media Workshop and member of the Steering Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party; and Eleanor (Holmes) Norton,…

  • Is population control genocide?

    A panel discussion held at the Environmental Teach-in on the University of California campus in Berkeley. Panelists are Dr. Sidney Liebes, a research physicist in the genetics department of Stanford University Medical Center and director of Planned Parenthood in San Mateo; Dr. Ron Hoy, neurophysiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Zoology;…

  • Delano now / Dolores C. Huerta ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    Dolores C. Huerta (1930 – ), Vice President of the United Farm Workers and Director of Contract Negotiations, discusses the negotiations centering on the 1965 Delano grape strike with KPFA’s Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the UFW’s negotiations with the produce industry, as well as the state of the grape boycott.

  • Racism and the urban crisis / Shirley Chisholm.

    Speech by Shirley Chisholm of New York, the nation’s first Black Congresswoman, on racial tensions in large cities. Chisholm calls racism the “bugaboo of America” and calls for immediate action to attack racism at its roots. Her lecture was delivered at UC Berkeley on January 11, 1970.