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Blanche Cooke on Crystal Eastman

Blanche Cooke talks about the life and work of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a radical, feminist, and socialist, and an attorney who graduated from the NYU law school in 1907.

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Program contains excerpts from a Sweet Honey in the Rock performance at P.S. 41 in March 1978 and an interview by Donna Allegra with Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pat (Johnson?), Evelyn Maria Harris and other members (not introduced) about the group and their music.

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 intro or outro. Produced by Donna Allegra.

Media review: May 30, 1981- Nicholas Johnson and Christie Hefner

This episode contains two segments: 1. Former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson on television, violence and the recent attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Speech recorded at the 100th anniversary program of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; 2. Christie Hefner from Playboy Magazine is interviewed by Brennan Jones.

What happened in India: the 1977 elections in perspective - Part II: the Janata flood

This is the second part of the documentary on mid-1970s political developments in India. This part outlines the Emergency, its development towards a constitutional dictatorship, and why Indira Gandhi lost the March 1977 elections. The documentary was made in honor of the 30th anniversary of India's independence. Contains interviews, actuality, and music.

r.1. To the Emergency. -- r.2. The Janata flood.

Velvet Sledgehammer: March 28, 1984[?]

Production reel for the March 28 (1984?) episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer. Contains a women's news segment, "Hot Flashes" with Karen Barrett of Majority Report. Next is a women's health update with Eileen Zalisk. She interviews Ann Teicher, co-chair of the Coalition for the International Day of Action and Karen Stamm of the Committee to End Sterilization Abuse (CESA).

Jean Garrigue reads at the Poetry Center

Poet Jean Garrigue (1912 - 1972), author of five volumes of poetry, including the recently published "Country without maps," reads from her work in a program recorded at the Poetry Center of the YM-YWHA in January 1965.

May Swenson reads at the Poetry Center

This is a recording of May Swenson (1913 - 1989) reading from her own work at the YM-YWHA Poetry Center in New York City.

Marianne Moore reads at the Poetry Center

In this program, the well-known American poet, Marianne Moore, reads from her work before an audience at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. YM-YWHA in New York City in 1965. Unfortunately, the entire recording of Moore's reading was unavailable, and this program includes only the second half.

Anne Sexton reads at the Poetry Center

Anne Sexton reads some of her work before an audience at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. YM-YWHA in New York City in 1965. Some of the poems read are: Her kind -- I remember -- In the deep museum -- The truth the dead know -- Walking in Paris -- For the year of the insane -- The double image. Not self-contained. Tape ends with nearly a minute of applause.

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