American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • A woman’s play: One Plus One

    A woman’s play: one plus one. A play about two black women dealing with problems. One woman, Baby Sis, deals with problems that result from internal or personal pressures. The other woman, Cheryl, faces those that result from external, or societal, pressures. From the folio: A surrealistic history of Black women through characters such as…

  • International Women’s Day (1980) speakers

    Tape of the celebration of International Women’s Day 1980, sponsored by NOW-NY and the New York Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and endorsed by over 40 other feminist, labor and civil rights activist groups. Recorded March 8, 1980. Speakers include Bella Abzug, Ruby Dee, Barbara Omolade, Marge Albert, Rhonda Copelon. Includes a…

  • Wild women don’t get the blues (Part 2 only)

    Aircheck of program produced by Donna Allegra of music by Black women, acapella, jazz, blues, and funk. This is Part Two and contains songs by Abby Lincoln, Sweet Honey in the Rock’s “Joan Little”, Labelle, Linda Tillery, and the Pointer Sisters, and a live performance by Linda C. Powell with accompaniment by Eileen Kane. Part…

  • Jewish women in New York

    Tapes selected from a panel on immigrant Jewish women which was part of a conference on Culture and Community among New York Jews which took place January 27-29, 1979, sponsored by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in cooperation with the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and made possible by a…

  • The November 10, 1977 CCNY conference: Black and Latin women in art and politics

    Excerpts from the November 10, 1977 conference of Black and Latin women in arts and politics, organized by the Black and Latin Women’s Organization of City College New York. The thoughts of Jill Nelson, June Jordan, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.

  • Interview with Mamie Williams

    This July is WPFW’s tribute to women month, and Upstream is celebrating with programs about “living legends.” This episode is an interview with Reverend Mamie Williams of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Northwest Washington, D.C. Produced by Nikki Jeter and Marie Smith. Program opens with a song “Cosmic Climax”(?) artist unknown and “The Creator…

  • 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…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: November 20, 1982-Audre Lorde

    Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) about her new book, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – A Biomythography (Persephone, 1982), from which she reads excerpts. Lorde and Cook discuss various scenes in the book, including Lorde’s relationship with her mother, her process of becoming a reader,…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984)

    Interview with Barbara Smith, writer, co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and editor of Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table, 1983) and Michelle Cliff, author of the novel Abeng (1984). Cliff and Smith read from their respective publications.

  • This bridge called my back: October 2, 1981

    Aircheck of first in a series of programs on the history of women of color titled “This Bridge Called My Back,” inspired by the anthology of the same title, edited by Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga. This program, about Native American and other women of color in the United States, is an introduction to the…