American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • Everywomanspace: September 6, 1982-Angela Gilliam hosts

    Aircheck of September 6, 1982 program of Everywomanspace, hosted by Angela Gilliam. The theme of the evening is Third World women and women’s work. Interview with Ona Jirira, economics student from Zimbabwe. Features listener phone calls.

  • Black feminism

    Program opens with a dialogue about the Women’s movement between Tendai Chitoza[sp?] of Zimbabwe and Donna Allegra. Next Donna Allegra talks with with Helen Toppins, one of the co-coordinators of the Black Feminist Network and Lori Sharpe, one of the co-founders of the Black Feminist Network about Tendai and feminism in the Third World. No…

  • Education for the weaker sex (Episode 3 of 7)

    Marjorie Uren, a graduate student in English at the University of California (Berkeley) and part time instructor of English at Stanford speaks on “Education for the weaker sex” at a teach-in on the oppression of women at San Francisco State College on December 10, 1969. Uren talks about the passive discrimination in textbooks and children’s…

  • Audre Lorde interviewed by Judy Simmons

    This is a recording of Judy Simmons interviewing Audre Lorde during a late-night show on WBAI in New York. In this recording, Lorde reads selections out of her book The Black Unicorn, and the two women converse with listeners who call in to discuss poetry, differences between men and women, being African-American, and other topics.…

  • Where do we go from here?

    This recording is introduced as an episode of “Where do we go from here?” hosted by Helene Rosenbluth and unnamed male co-host. This episode is taking a look at highlights from past programs of IMRU and Lesbian Sisters. Includes the following stories: a report on lesbian feminists in Japan; challenges faced by lesbian and gay…

  • Angela Davis at Occidental College

    Angela Davis, faculty member at San Francisco College, and sponsored by the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, speaks at Occidental College during Black History Month about her experiences with African American struggles during the 1960s and on to the present and the benefits of civil rights actions for all minorities. Her personal history includes…

  • Rosa Parks: Alabama bus boycotts start

    Box label: Voice of Rosa Parks heard by phone telling her story of refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus [in Montgomery, Alabama December 1, 1955 sparking the anti-segregation bus boycotts]. She tells this same story in a much younger sounding voice in a 1962 broadcast by Sidney Rogers:…

  • Art Against Apartheid: A commemoration for the Soweto Massacre

    An evening to commemorate the Soweto Uprising which took place on June 16, 1984. Tracie Jones reads poetry and a representative of an African National Congress women’s group discusses demonstrations in Harlem, as well as international and UN pressure on the South African government to end apartheid. Other female poets, including June Jordan, share their…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 4, 1980

    Production reel for June 4, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Includes recording of Florynce “Flo” Kennedy (1916-2000) speaking on ways women can use boycotting as a way of protest; activist Freda Rosen (1945– 2007) is interviewed about the Coalition of Grassroots Women and the upcoming Women’s Convention (June 22, 1980); 3. Judith Loren[sp?] and…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: July 30, 1980 (Part 1 only)

    This is the production reel for the July 30, 1980 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. This recording contains a reading by Kate Millet of her statement denouncing death by stoning of Iranian women in Iran. Next is Eileen Zalisk interviewing Marge DeFazio about Women 80 and a planned march down 5th Ave upcoming on August…