Episode

Growth of the Black Muslim movement in the U.S. / C. Eric Lincoln.

Scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln delivers a speech on the growing black nationalist movement. Lincoln divides his talk into sections entitled "The magnolia myth," "The making of the Muslim movement," and an unnamed analysis of the current black Muslim movement.

Eldridge Cleaver at Sacramento State

An address by the Black Panther Minister of Information and 1968 Presidential nominee for the Peace & Freedom Party at the Racism in America symposium held at Sacramento State College in 1968. He covers a variety of subjects, including the 1968 elections, the telephone company, Social Analysis 139-X, the Panther office shoot-up, and the police and court systems.

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.

Test tube babies / produced by Laurie Garrett.

Documentary on the moral, physical, and socio-political controversy surrounding artificial insemination and egg implantation, based on hearings conducted in San Francisco in November 1978 by Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) Secretary Joseph Califano. Heard on the program are Dr.

Informed consent / produced by Amanda Spake

Amanda Spake from "Mother Jones" talks to Howard Rosenberg about his article "Informed Consent" about a child receiving radiation treatment. Between 1960 and 1975, 194 cancer patients were treated with high level whole body radiation at the Atomic Energy Commission's Oakridge, Tennessee laboratory.

Woman Poet anthology reading / produced by Alan Soldofsky (Part 1 only)

Woman Poet West: the first part of a two-part program featuring excerpts of a reading done in honor of the publication of the Woman Poet anthology West Coast edition (Women-in-Literature, Incorporated, 1980). The reading was recorded in September 1980 at Cody's Books in Berkeley.

Margaret Sanger and Annie Besant: a woman's right / produced by Joanna Brouk. (Episode 7 of 7)

Docu-drama about Annie Besant's and Margaret Sanger's fight to make methods of birth control available to the public. Prior to the middle of this century, methods of birth control were virtually unknown and information concerning contraception was considered obscene and kept from the large majority of the public.

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 fight to help slaves escape north. Produced by Darcell King.

Woman to woman : Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton / produced by Joanna Brouk. (Episode 4 of 7)

In this docudrama, based upon court transcripts, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are interviewed on their lives and friendship. These two women were dedicated to their beliefs, and endured years of scorn and public ridicule for the efforts to achieve equal rights and suffrage for women.

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.

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