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reel IZ1536

Women's health movement and the WATCH arrests 28824_P01 WBAI, 1979?

Scope and Contents

Eileen Zalisk speaks with Debbie Stuart-Smalley from Womancare, a feminist healthcare center in San Diego, CA; Mary Ann Bennett, with the Abortion Rights Movement of Women's Liberation in Washington, D.C.; and Peggy Roberts, a family physician who also volunteers at a women's healthcare center in Albuquerque, NM. The topic is the legal case of Carol Downer and Ginny Cassidy-Brinn, two women's healthcare activists from Los Angeles involved with Women Acting to Combat Harassment (WATCH), who were arrested in Tallahassee, Florida for undertaking an unannounced consumer inspection of the maternity unit at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in 1977. Discussion recorded November 8, 1979. Previously cataloged as IZ1353.02.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women's health services
Abortion
Abortion -- Law and legislation.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel IZ0904

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conference, 1981 29154_P01 WBAI, (1981-05-27~)?

Scope and Contents

Two speakers at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom conference, recorded May 27, 1981. Joanna [no last name given] on U.S. strategic policy and its impact on Europe; 24:00--Edith Ballantyne, General Secretary for the League Office in Geneva, Switzerland speaks about her European perspective on the U.S. armament policy.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Armaments.
Ballantyne, Edith
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
reel IZ0449.05

Women's legal clinic: April 9, 1979-Sex discrimination in employment 28776_P01 WBAI, April 9, 1979

Scope and Contents

Women's legal clinic. Broadcast live. Topic: Sex discrimination in employment. Hosted by Betty Levinson, Eve Cary and Judith Levin and another unnamed host discuss the Lochner vs. New York Supreme Court case (1905), which involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to ten, and limited the number of hours that a baker could work each week to 60, and Muller vs. Oregon (1908), which justified both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. Call-ins were not recorded.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Sex discrimination in employment
Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
reel IZ0449.07

Women's legal clinic: August 6, 1979- ERA 28778_P01 WBAI, August 6, 1979

Scope and Contents

Women's legal clinic. Eve Cary and Judy Levin talk about ERA and take listener phone calls. Very good and up to date as of air date. Some of air check lost at beginning. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed).
Women's rights
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
reel IZ0449.08

Women's legal clinic: December 2, 1979-Child custody 28779_P01 WBAI, December 2, 1979

Scope and Contents

Women's Legal Clinic aircheck. Judy Levin and Betty Levinson discuss child custody and take listener phone calls.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
CHILD CUSTODY and SUPPORT
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Divorce -- United States.
Women -- Economic conditions.
Child support -- Law and legislation -- United States
reel IZ0449.27

Women's legal clinic: February 3, 1980 29324_P01 WBAI, February 3, 1980

Scope and Contents

Everywomanspace: Women's legal clinic. Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace. February 3, 1980 with attorney Judy Levin, law student Paula Smith, and WBAI's Judy Pasternak, discussing forced sterilization of women who work in hazardous workplaces including the Dupont plant. Needs editing before broadcast.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women workers.
Occupational reproductive hazards.
Sex discrimination in employment
DUPONT
reel IZ0449.10

Women's legal clinic: July 7, 1980 28782_P01 WBAI, July 7, 1980

Scope and Contents

Judy Levin and Betty Levinson review important legal cases of the 1970s. Begins with discussion of a recent Supreme Court case concerning abortion, McRae v. Harris, which held that states participating in Medicaid were not required to provide funding for abortions, then reviews precedents of 1970s. Features a listener call-in portion. Edited and approved for broadcast by Eileen Zalisk.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women's rights
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
Reproductive rights
Abortion -- Law and legislation.
reel IZ0449.14

Women's legal clinic: March 23, 1981 16949_P01 WBAI, March 23, 1981

Scope and Contents

EVERY WOMAN'S SPACE: WOMEN'S LEGAL CLINIC / Produced by WBAI. Recorded on March 23, 1981, hosted by Judith Levin and Betty Levinson. Discussion is on the Helms-Hyde bill, known as the "Human life" bill, which has been introduced into the Supreme Court legislature. They discuss the bill and the social and legal context it came after, including two Supreme Court decisions: the H.L. v. Matheson court decision on new rules regarding parental notifications with abortions, and a California statutory rape case. - Broadcast on March 23, 1981. Originally cataloged as just IZ0449.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Abortion
Abortion -- Law and legislation.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
reel IZ0449.06

Women's legal clinic: May 7, 1979-Legal rights related to pregnancy 28777_P01 WBAI, May 7, 1979

Scope and Contents

The topic of this week's Women's Legal Clinic is pregnancy, disability, and women's legal rights with respect to pregnancy. Hosts are Eve Cary and Judy Levin. Cary is an attorney with Legal Aid Society of New York and the author of the NYCLU Guide to Women's Rights in New York State. Levin is an attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Rights Program. Broadcast live with listener phone calls. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Pregnancy.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women's rights
Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation
Pregnancy, Unwanted.
Pregnant women -- Employment -- United States.
reel BC0981.01

Women's liberation and Black civil rights / Catharine R. Stimpson (Episode 1) 29365_P01 WBAI, September 19, 1972

Scope and Contents

Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on 'Women's liberation and Black Civil Rights." Stimpson, a Literature professor from Barnard College, speaks about the relationship between the Women's movement and the Black Civil Rights movement and possible tensions. Contains a very passionate question and answer period with well-known feminist theorists (although their identities are not obvious). Recorded in WBAI's studio C. The program is introduced by producer Nanette Rainone who also introduces this new series "The Women's School." See more information about the series here: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/bc0981. This program was on 2 reels, but there is 1 digital file containing both parts.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women's movement
Blacks -- Civil rights.
Women's liberation and Black civil rights / Catharine R. Stimpson.
Stimpson, Catharine R., 1936-
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel BC0289

Women's liberation and the arts / produced by Bonnie Bellow. 12056_P01 WBAI, March 16, 1971

Scope and Contents

A panel of women artists and critics discuss the topic "Women's liberation and the arts." The program was recorded at The Art Student's League of New York and is the first of two programs on women and art. Lucy Lippard, art critic, is the moderator, and panelists include Nancy Spero, painter; Faith Ringgold, painter; Grace Paley, writer; Kate Millett, sculptor and writer; Sylvia Stone, sculptor; Jennifer Licht, curator at the Museum of Modern Art; Louise Nevelson, sculptor; and Annette Michelson, writer on both art and film. Produced by Bonnie Bellow. Also broadcast on KPFA.Likely same series as BC0290.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women's movement
Women in art.
Women artists
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel BC2196.11

Women's liberation in China / Diane Feeley 12801_P01 WBAI, 1975-05-26

Scope and Contents

Diane Feeley, coordinator of National Organization for Women, New York (NOW-NY)'s Women in the Arts Committee, lectures on the struggle of Chinese women for liberation from their traditional subservient roles. She traces the history of women's labor unions and self-defense groups, and the effect of the 1949 revolution on ending such barbaric practices as slavery, foot-binding and child brides. This recording is Part 2 of a series of talks by Diane Feeley on Women in China, including BC2196.12. Produced in cooperation with NOW-NY.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women -- China.
National Organization for Women
Feeley, Diane
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel IZ0449.15

Women's occupational health: August 10, 1981 28785_P01 WBAI, August 10, 1981

Scope and Contents

Aircheck of Everywomanspace episode in a series on women's occupational safety and health, hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center at Columbia University, and Mary Sue Henifin, resource coordinator for the Center. Tonight's focus is on the hidden health hazards in the work that many women do, e.g. from photocopiers and mercury in wallpaper paste. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-
Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-
Women workers.
Occupational health and safety.
reel IZ0449.12

Women's occupational health: December 15, 1980 28784_P01 WBAI, December 15, 1980

Scope and Contents

Another in a series of programs on women and occupational safety and health produced by Dr. Jeanne Stellman, executive director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Mary Sue Henifin, an associate of the Center. The topic of this program is the health of women office workers. Guests are Dr. Karen Nussbaum, former office worker and director of Working Women, the National Association of Office Workers; and Barbara Garson, author of MacBird and more recently All the Livelong Day: The Meaning and De-Meaning of Routine Work (Penguin Books, 1975). Also features a listener call-in portion. Produced by Eileen Zalisk.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-
Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-
Nussbaum, Karen
Garson, Barbara.
Women workers.
Office workers -- Health hazards.
Occupational health and safety.
reel IZ0449.11

Women's occupational health: November 10, 1980 28783_P01 WBAI, 1980-11-10

Scope and Contents

The first in a series of programs on women's occupational safety and health with Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center. Features listener call-ins.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-
Henifin, Mary Sue, 1953-
Occupational health and safety -- Law and legislation.
Occupational health and safety.
Women workers.
reel IZ0449.13

Women's occupational safety: February 9, 1981 28793_P01 WBAI, February 9, 1981

Scope and Contents

Women's Occupational Health and Safety hour hosted by Dr. Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin. In this episode, Mary Sue Henifin interviews co-host Dr. Jeanne Stellman, Associate Professor for Public Health at Columbia University and Executive Director of the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center and Dr. Steven Stellman, Assistant Vice President for Epidemiology at the American Cancer Society, about women's jobs and occupational cancer risk.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Occupational health and safety.
Women workers.
Cancer in women.
Stellman, Jeanne Mager, 1947-
Cancer -- Environmental aspects.
reel IZ0909

Women's Pentagon Action Rally 29156_P01 WBAI, 1980-11-17~

Scope and Contents

Banded reel of actuality from the Women's Pentagon Action on November 17, 1980, held in Washington, D.C, during which over two thousand women surrounded the Pentagon to protest the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the destruction of the Earth and the oppression of women. Begins with a reading of the Statement of Purpose for the Action (women against imperialist war powers - to stop the production of nuclear weapons), which was drafted by Grace Paley; 8:47--welcome remarks in Washington, DC by an unidentified woman; 9:56--actuality of music, chants at rally; 10:55--Bella Abzug statement to interviewer; 12:25--Eleanor Fowler from Bucks County, PA for WILPF comments; 13:41--Caroline Warren, Quaker and "born again pacifist" comments; 14:38--Nia (no last name given), activist in housing and community development, comments; 16:19--comments by Amy Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace; 17:43--Developing countries representative (name not given on tape) comments.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- Washington, D. C.
Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998
Swerdlow, Amy
reel BC1223A, reel BC1223B

Women's poetry evening at WBAI's Studio C 14724_P01_02 WBAI, October 7, 1972

Scope and Contents

Reading of poetry by and about women, held in WBAI's Studio C--the first live women's poetry event at WBAI. Poets reading are: Daniela Gioseffi (b. 1941), Erica Jong (b. 1942), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Jane Mayhall (1918-2009), and Robin Morgan (b. 1941). Music by: Roberta Cosi[sp?], Arlene Mendes[sp?], Beechee Forbes[sp?]. Produced by Mimi Anderson and Brett Vuolo.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women poets
Poetry -- Women authors.
Gioseffi, Daniela.
Jong, Erica.
Lorde, Audre
Morgan, Robin, 1941-
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Mayhall, Jane
reel IZ0670.02

Women's Poetry Reading to benefit Ikon Magazine 29244_P01 WBAI, 1982-12-11

Scope and Contents

The second half of the excerpted version of the benefit reading held for Ikon Magazine on October 16 1982 at New York University. The event was emceed by poet Patricia Spears Jones. Readers are Lois Elaine Griffith (one of the founding poets of the Nuryorican Poets Cafe), Hettie Jones (b. 1935, ex-wife of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka), Irena Klelpfisz (b.1941), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), and Susan Sherman (founding editor of Ikon Magazine).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Jones, Hettie
Griffith, Lois
Klepfisz, Irena, 1941-
Lorde, Audre
Sherman, Susan, 1939-
Women poets
Poetry -- Women authors.
African American women poets
reel BC2196.05

Women, culture, and society / Diane Feeley. 12799_P01 WBAI, 1975-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

An historical examination of the development of women's societal role traced by Diane Feeley, Coordinator of Women in the Arts Committee of National Organization for Women (NOW), New York. Feeley gives examples of past societies in which women were more productive and played a far more active role than our own. She sees the view of women as being "valueless" as having emerged within the last 150 years, and encourages women to utilize resources to regain their equal social status.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women -- History.
Social role.
National Organization for Women
Feeley, Diane
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel BB3866.05

Women: "Childness" / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 5 of 5) 28517_P01 WBAI, 1969-02-06~

Scope and Contents

Part five in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women's movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.5. The perspective of women as everybody's children in society. Guests are Carol Goodman of the October 17th Movement; Brian Goldfarb, a 15-year-old student; Richard Cook, a 15-year-old student at Glen Rock Community; and Nanette Rainone. The topics of discussion are the ties that bind women and children, the possibilities of breaking those ties, and what that might mean in a future society; the oppression of women by youth and vice versa; taught gender roles; the family unit; more.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Goodman, Carol
Women's movement -- United States.
Women / produced by Kay Lindsey
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Parenting.
Motherhood
Rainone, Nanette.
reel BB3866.01

Women: an introduction / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 1 of 5) 28513_P01 WBAI, 1968-11-19~

Scope and Contents

Part one in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women's movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.1. An Introduction to the women's movement (56 min.) Discussion in a group of women regarding realizing they felt oppressed as women, the origin of their awareness, sometimes from participating in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. They also discuss what they think needs to change in society to achieve equality between women and men. The last 12 minutes of the program feature a statement from a woman about the relationship between the black civil rights movement and the women's movement, and what she foresees as the trajectory for the women's movement.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Abortion -- United States.
Women's movement -- United States.
Women / produced by Kay Lindsey
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Consciousness raising.
reel BB3866.03

Women: birth control-abortion / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 3 of 5) 28515_P01 WBAI, 1968-12-28~

Scope and Contents

Part three in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women's movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.3. The psychology of abortion and birth control. Guests are Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp of Public Education Committee of Parents Aid Society of Hempstead, Long Island, and both members of the Abortion Committee of the National Organization for Women. Cisler clarifies that they are speaking for themselves and not representing their organizations in this discussion. Cisler and Clapp discuss the little-discussed matter of female psychology when she is confronted with the problems of birth control and abortion. Kay Lindsey moderates.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Abortion -- United States.
Women's movement -- United States.
Women / produced by Kay Lindsey
Abortion -- Psychological aspects.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel BB3866.02

Women: girl watching / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 2 of 5) 28514_P01 WBAI, 1968-11-19~

Scope and Contents

Part two in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women's movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.2. Girl watching as a practice. Guests on this show are Roxanne Dunbar, Maureen Mays, and Jane of the Female Liberation Front in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Discussion opens with voyeuristic "girl watching" by men and how this activity reflects the way in which men regard women. The discussion continues to include men cat-calling women they don't know on the street, and what their expectations are; men's attitudes towards women's various modes of dress; oppressive roles of women; the role of women in the workforce; and more. Contains sensitive language.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Abortion -- United States.
Women's movement -- United States.
Women / produced by Kay Lindsey
Man-woman relationships
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel BB3866.04

Women: love and violence / produced by Kay Lindsey (Episode 4 of 5) 28516_P01 WBAI, 1969-01-18~

Scope and Contents

Part four in a series of documentaries and discussions which focus upon issues of the Women's movement, produced by Kay Lindsey. pt.4. The problems of love and violence in male-female relations. The fourth program in the series on women produced by Kay Lindsey is a discussion on the nature of love in this society and the implications for women. Participants are Ti-Grace Atkinson of the October 17th Movement, Anne Koedt of Radical Women, and John Wilson. Topics also include racial discrimination, and the different expectations of men and women in the workforce.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Atkinson, Ti-Grace
Man-woman relationships
Women's movement -- United States.
Women / produced by Kay Lindsey
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Koedt, Anne
reel IZ1350

Working women / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey 28820_P01 WBAI, 1973-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

A program about women's work in American. This program contains portions of two speak-outs held recently in New York City, one of women office workers (see BC1717) and one on women's work (possibly BC1722). The program was produced by Bonnie Bellow and Brett Harvey, with special assistance from Judy Sherman, Nanette Rainote, and Susan Sheftel, and technical production by Peter Zanger. Speakers include: 1. Unidentified woman tells story of working in dry cleaning business beginning 42 years ago. (2 min.); 2. Woman who ran away from home, became a worker in stockyards where she attended young Communist league meetings. Talks about dangers of industry. (5 min.); 3. Black woman from North Carolina houseworker paid $3.50 per week. Came to New York in 1948. Became a sleep-in girl for $40 a week. No security as houseworker. (5 min.); 4. Laundry worker. (3 min.); 5. Asian woman paid $1.00 an hour as a garment factory worker. (2 min.); 6. Stockyard worker (2 min.); 7. Garment factory worker who complained about doing same job of men and earned less $44.00 week. Special thanks to Studs Terkel for the loan of some of the taped interviews used in his book "Working" (Pantheon), and thanks to Alice and Staughton Lynd for the loan of material from their book "Rank and file".

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women workers.
Sex discrimination in employment
Working class women
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
Garment workers.
Work -- Social conditions.
reel IZ0069

X-rays : more harm than good? / Priscilla Laws ; interviewed by Lynn Samuels. 6912_P01 WBAI, July 4, 1977

Scope and Contents

Priscilla Laws, author of "X-rays: More harm than good?" (Rodale Press, 1977) is interviewed by Lynn Samuels. She talks about the overuse (and misuse) of radiation in routine medical and dental procedures and urges people to learn as much as they can about it before consenting to X-ray exposure. She ties this into larger concerns about the structure of health care in the United States. Produced for WBAI by Lynn Samuels.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Samuels, Lynn.
Laws, Priscilla.
X-rays -- Physiological effect.
Women authors
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Consumer protection.
reel BC0339

Yoko Ono / interviewed by Liza Cowan and Jan Albert. 5036_P01 WBAI, December 17, 1971

Scope and Contents

Artist and musician Yoko Ono discusses the evolution of her art during the 1960s with Liza Cowan and Jan Albert at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City on September 11, 1971. Includes discussion of conceptual art, her film "Lighting Piece", acting out madness in order to not go mad, her time as a building superintendent, her early loft concerts, the pea throwing ritual, and discrimination against women artists. John Lennon makes a brief appearance about halfway through the interview.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Ono, Yōko, 1943-
Albert, Jan.
Women artists
Art.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel IZ0506

Yom HaShoah service commemorating the Holocaust 17030_P01 WBAI, April 20, 1983

Scope and Contents

Women's resistance in the Holocaust, a special program to mark Holocaust Remembrance day. Irena Klepfisz, Melanie Kaye and other women gather at Woman Books on April 21, 1982 to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the 39th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Broadcast on April 20, 1983.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

HOLOCAUST
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Jewish women--United States
Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel BC0327

Yvonne Rainer on dance / interviewed by Liza Cowan. 5033_P01 WBAI, September 6, 1971

Scope and Contents

Yvonne Rainer, dancer, choreographer, and founder of dance company The Grand Union talks with Liza Cowan about the Judson Dance Theater, cross- influences in dance, music, and theater, the use of space and time in dance, and the dance audience. Originally broadcast live on "Electra Rewired"--this may be a later broadcast. Also see producer Liza Cowan's letter from the same year in the WBAI November 1971 folio here: https://archive.org/stream/wbaifolio1211wbairich#page/7/mode/2up.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Rainer, Yvonne.
Dancing.
Women dancers.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel IZ1365

Zerega Association mayoral forum with Bella Abzug 28837_P01 WBAI, September 1, 1977

Scope and Contents

On August 31, 1977 the community association of Zerega in the Bronx held a mayoral forum attended by Herman Badillo, Ed Koch, and Bella Abzug. This program includes the presentation given by Bella Abzug and interviews with members of the Zerega Community. Produced by John Fisk and Dave Metzger.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998
Elections -- New York (City).
Women politicians
Women politicians -- Public opinion.
 

WPFW American Women recordings Series 5 1976-1983

Physical Description: 49 Reels

Scope and Contents

Established in 1977, WPFW 89.3 FM was the fifth station to join the Pacifica Radio network. WPFW serves the Washington D.C area, with much of its programming dedicated to jazz, blues, and classic soul music and international or world music. This series includes almost fifty recordings related to women’s issues, including Nicki Jeter and Marie Smith’s series “Upstream” (1981) which focused on African American women’s issues, and the series “A Woman’s Story,” produced by Sophie’s Parlor Media Collective.
reel WZ0050

A blind blues street singer / Flora Molton ; interviewed by Natalie Reuss. 941_P01 WPFW, 1976-09-uu

Scope and Contents

Interview with Flora Molton, blind blues street-singer of the Washington, D.C. area. Flora tells stories of her past, sings and plays slide guitar, and explains why she has chosen to be a performer of the street. Her band members include Ed Morris and Phil Wiggins. Natalie Reuss of Sophie's Parlor Media Collective conducts the interview. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.
Street musicians.
Musicians, Blind.
Blues (Songs, etc.).
Women musicians.
Molton, Flora, 1908-1990
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0185

A Retrospective on radical feminism / produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George. 14324_P01 WPFW, 1980-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

A documentary that looks at the development of ideas that shaped the radical women's movement, mainly focusing on the movement in the 1970s. Includes bits of movie soundtracks, speeches and interviews with the women who made history. Topics covered in the program are women and labor unions in the early 20th century, the return to the home after WWII, women in the civil rights movement, the New Left and the beginning of the autonomous women's movement, the formation of women's liberation groups, the emergence of radical lesbian groups such as the Furies, the United Nations International Women's Year Conference of 1977, feminist health clinics and other women's centers, organizing women household workers, grand jury investigations of members of the women's movement, racism within the women's movement. Among those voices heard are Alix Kates Shulman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Leslie Cagan, Cynthia Funk, Joan Byron, Betty Friedan, Carol Downer, Gerri Traina, Edith Barksdale Sloan, Jill Raymond, Donna Keck, and Cynthia Washington. Produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George. A presentation of the Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Feminism
Women's movement
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Feminism--United States--History--20th century
Shulman, Alix Kates
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Friedan, Betty
Sloan, Edith Barksdale
Keck, Donna
reel WZ0109

A woman artist speaks / Joyce Scott ; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan. 14267_P01 WPFW, 1977-07-27?

Scope and Contents

Artist Joyce J. Scott (b. 1948) talks about how she became an artist, and about creating and selling art. She is interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Art -- Marketing.
Women artists
African American women artists
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Scott, Joyce, 1948-
reel WZ0014

Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday. 14198_P01 WPFW, 1977-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW's Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.'s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled "Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" was being staged. Also includes an interview with Brooks by Grace Cavalieri conducted at WPFW, with Mike Hodge of the Black Repertory Theatre and Noble Lee Lester, who recites a soliloquy from the production. Brooks reads some of her poetry and comments on seeing her work dramatized, on being categorized as a "Black woman poet", and on the potentially creative uses of anger and hatred. Produced by Taliba Holliday, with associate producers Angelo Anthony and Grace Cavalieri.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women poets
Cavalieri, Grace
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Anderson, Kathy
Gregory, Angelo
Lester, Noble Lee
African American women poets
D.C. Black Repertory Company
reel WZ0027

Back Alley Theatre / Naomi Eftes and Elaine Heffernan interviewed by Ree Austin 14208_P01 WPFW, March 21, 1977

Scope and Contents

Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan, two local Washington, D. C. artists and housewives, discuss the creation of Back Alley Theatre, and delineate workable survival avenues for the struggling artist. Interview conducted by Ree Austin. Produced by Grace Cavalieri.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Children's theater -- Washington, D.C.
Back Alley Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.)
Eftis, Naomi
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0164

Bernadette Devlin speech on Northern Ireland 20858_P01 WPFW, 1977~-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947), a leader of the Catholic Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s, gives a speech about the recent history of Northern Ireland since its creation in the 1920's. She also gives a history of religious conflict and the women's peace movement in Northern Ireland. Introduced by Mark Weiss.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Religion and politics.
Peace movement.
Women revolutionaries.
Speech on Northern Ireland / by Bernadette Devlin.**A
McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin, 1947-
Northern Ireland -- Social conditions.
Northern Ireland -- Politics and government.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0210

Black music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis ; interviewed by Joan Thornell. 15104_P01 WPFW, May 3, 1977

Scope and Contents

Joan Thornell interviews Ntozake Shange (1948 - ), poet and playwright, and Thulani Davis (1949 - ), playwright, librettist, and teacher of English at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. for her "Another Perspective" series on the types and development of Black music. Topics discussed include Stevie Wonder, Motown, jazz, the blues, and the differences between poetry and music scenes in certain cities. Many of their insights on music have direct applications to other aspects of American society. Produced at WPFW, Washington, D.C., 1977. Contains sensitive language.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
African Americans--Music
Shange, Ntozake.
Davis, Thulani.
reel WZ0293

Black women and liberation movements conference (Part 2 only) 29349_P01 WPFW, 1979-11-26

Scope and Contents

Listening Post: Highlights from the "Black Women and Liberation Movements" Conference, sponsored by Howard University's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, November 8, 1979. Speaker on this reel, Frances Beal, tells of her first teacher and about the history of the SNCC and SCLC. This is reel 2 of 2, reel 1 is missing.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Beal, Frances, 1940-
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
African American Women
reel WZ0255.02

Black women of achievement: Stephanie Colbert Hopkins 29296_P01 WPFW, July 8, 1981

Scope and Contents

Interview with Stephanie Colbert Hopkins, president of Star Step, Inc, a public relations firm. Hopkins, a Black small business owner, discusses her professional and personal successes, the current job market for Black people, and the double stigma she faces as a business owner of being both Black and a woman. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith. Intro of host and guest cut off at beginning. The month's theme for Upstream was Black Women of Achievement.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Black women -- History.
African American Women
Business enterprises, Black
reel WZ0117

Blacks and the Washington D.C. ballet / Claire Haywood; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan. 14271_P01 WPFW, May 9, 1977

Scope and Contents

Hosts Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan interview Claire Haywood (d. 1978), artistic director of the Capitol Ballet Company, and co-founder, with Doris Jones, of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. The Jones-Haywood school, was founded in 1941 to give minority children an opportunity to study classical ballet at a time when opportunities were limited for African-American students. She discusses the founding of their school, her NEA-funded teacher-training course, her ballet company, and finding a career in ballet.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Ballet.
Blacks in the performing arts.
African American women dancers
Haywood, Claire, -1978
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0019

Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver. 14202_P01 WPFW, May 3, 1976

Scope and Contents

This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York. She finds herself in her early twenties teaching young kids and struggling with the fact that people don't recognize her as black. Her broken Spanish, light skin and straight hair hide her heritage. She falls in love with a young man who is recovering from drug addiction. Includes actuality and music. Produced by Robert Frazier, operations director of WPFW, and Sigidi Braudy, music director of WPFW.This recording is a duplicate of WZ0268.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women, Black.
Women authors
Ghettoes.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Oliver, Denise
African American women authors
East Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
reel WZ0256

Clips of women's voices and issues 29289_P01 WPFW, 1979-12-20/1983-01-22?

Scope and Contents

Tape labeled "Women's" and contains a list of clips related to the women's movement, reproductive rights, etc., beginning with 12-20-79 Activist Kim Klein (Coalition for Medical Rights of women) on IUD's and ending with 1-22-83 10th Anniversary Roe vs. Wade, Roxanne Merryfield. Clips are from various Pacifica stations and are a mixture of actuality, news reports, phone interviews and in-studio commentary.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Radio news programs
reel WZ0299A, reel WZ0299B, reel WZ0299C

Coal country women / produced by Mary Kasamatsu 29316_P01_03 WPFW, {1982-06-05,1982-06-19,1982-06-26}

Scope and Contents

This is a three-part series on women in Appalachia in the 1970s: mining disasters, their lives as wives and mothers of miners, as miners themselves, and on life in mining country. Produced by Mary Kasamatsu, with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, through National Public Radio's Satellite Program Development Fund. Technical assistance by Moira Rankin and Sharon Shapiro, and editorial assistance from Paul Datmond[sp?] Part 1: "An Ordinary Mornin'" tells the story of the aftermath of a mining disaster. This episode documents the personal impact of the Scotia Mine Disaster as felt by women whose husbands and sons were killed in the explosions at the Scotia Mine in Oven Fork, Kentucky in March 1976. Broadcast on WPFW in 1982 and KPFA, June 5, 1982. Part 2: "Occupation Coal Miner" about women miners in Appalachia, who share their problems and their triumphs and talk about experiences ranging from job discrimination, sexual harassment, and workplace dangers, to the ongoing struggle to balance family responsibility and the demands of rotating shift work in the mines. Broadcast on WPFW in 1982 and KPFA, June 19, 1982. Part 3: "Never Did Run, Ain't Going to Yet": portraits of coal country women. This last episode in the series focuses on coalfield women who have fought and continue to fight to improve the quality of life in their communities. Some of the women featured are long-time labor activist Florence Reece, who wrote the song "Which side are you on?"; Helen Powell, a West Virginia black lung activist; and Betty Anderson, who monitors strip mining and works for tax reform in the coalfields of Tennessee. A common theme of mutual self help runs through each of the women's stories. Broadcast on WPFW in 1982 and KPFA, June 26, 1982.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Coal mine accidents -- Kentucky
Coal mines and mining
Women coal miners
Scotia Mine Disaster, Oven Fork, Ky., 1976
Women workers.
Women labor unionists.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Reece, Florence, 1900-1986
reel WZ0002.01

Discrimination at work: federal workers and equal opportunity 14190_P01 WPFW, March 20, 1977

Scope and Contents

On whether the federal government has successfully implemented its own equal opportunity program. Discussion by Roy Johnson, President of Government Employees United Against Racial Descrimination, and Roberto Tobias, General Council of the National Treasury Employees Union, and Mary Jo Binder, Federal Women's Program Coordinator, U.S. Treasury Department. This program was produced by Rob Berlidge[sp?] and Carmen Delle Donne. Series produced December 1976-March 1977 by Carmen Delle Donne. Previously cataloged as WZ0002.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Working classes -- United States.
Minorities -- Employment.
Civil service -- United States -- Minority employment.
Discrimination in employment -- United States.
Discrimination at work : federal workers and equal opportunity / Roy Johnson, Roberto Tobias, and Mary Jo Binder.
Sex discrimination against women
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0049A, reel WZ0049B

Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Hazel Robinson 14222_P01_02 WPFW, October 19, 1976

Scope and Contents

"A poet is -- a diary of the soul." Thus begins one of Hazel Robinson's poems and that thought is the theme of this program. Four local poets--Tamu Moore, Erskie Freeman, Mary Greer, and Hazel Robinson--read their poems and talk about how and why and when they write.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women poets
Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Grace Cavalieri.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine)
African American poets
reel WZ0031A, reel WZ0031B

Four women poets / Diana Vance, Nefretete, Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri 14212_P01_02 WPFW, September 17, 1976

Scope and Contents

Host Grace Cavalieri interviews four women poets: Diana Vance, Nefretete[sp?], Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler. The women read selections of their poetry and talk about being women poets and "women's" poetry.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Poetry, Modern.
Women poets / Diana Vance, Nefretete, Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri.
Women poets
Slayton-Leffler, Ann
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0065

Geology, sexism and racism / produced by Rich Pollack. 14235_P01 WPFW, June 7, 1977

Scope and Contents

The field of geology has long been considered a club with the petro, coal and mining companies. But it's exclusivity goes beyond that. It's heavily all white and all male. This program looks at the effect of this fact on all of us. Discussion on the sexism and racism within the field of geology with David Schwartzman, Sandra Clarke, [Richard?] Gustav[e?] Johnson, and Donald Jackson.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Geology -- Vocational guidance.
Racism.
Discrimination in employment.
Sex discrimination in employment
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0047

Harlan county USA / Nancy Barker and Hart Perry 15076_P01 WPFW, March 28, 1977

Scope and Contents

Barry Parker from WPFW's Film Exchange interviews Nancy Barker and Hart Perry, respectively the director of editing and principal cinematographer of Barbara Kopple's 1977 documentary Harlan County USA. The two discuss how they came to be involved in the film's production and about the scene in the film where strikebreakers attacked the film crew.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Barker, Nancy
Perry, Hart
Documentary films
Coal Miners' Strike, Harlan County, Ky., 1973
Harlan County USA (Motion picture)
Kopple, Barbara
reel WZ0090

Heliotrope : a woman's magazine / Mary Bailey ; interviewed by Sandra Porter 14255_P01 WPFW, May 27, 1977

Scope and Contents

Sandra Porter interviews Mary Bailey, co-founder of the feminist publication "Heliotrope." Davita Maron was her co-founder. Host, Sandra Porter is also a contributor, and the two women discuss their work with the publication and the writing of women in general. (Label spells the journal "heileatroupe" which was likely incorrect)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Periodicals, Publishing of.
Women's writings.
Women authors
Women's publishers and publishing.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0176

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden / Kathleen Quinlan ; interviewed by Barry Parker. 14318_P01 WPFW, August 23, 1977

Scope and Contents

Kathleen Quinlan (b. 1954), star of the film "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden," discusses her career and the film. She is interviewed by Barry Parker in a Washington, DC hotel room.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Actresses -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
Actresses.
QUINLAN, KAREN.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0255.01

Interview with Mamie Williams 28847_P01 WPFW, July 22, 1981

Scope and Contents

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 Has a Master Plan" by Pharoah Sanders.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Williams, Mamie
African American Women
Women religious leaders
African American women -- Religious life
reel WZ0052

Interview with Maureen Owen, publisher of Telephone Books and Telephone magazine; interviewed by Doug Lang. 14224_P01 WPFW, 1977-01-uu

Scope and Contents

Modest discussion, low key, of the background and publishing career of Maureen Owen. There is discussion of the problems that plague young poets trying to be published. Produced by Barry Parker, WPFW.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Publishers and publishing.
Women's publishers and publishing.
Owen, Maureen, 1943-
Women poets
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0119

It only hurts when you laugh / Robin Tyler; produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. 14273_P01 WPFW, July 6, 1977

Scope and Contents

Feminist comedian Robin Tyler discusses her comedy, including her work as one-half of the comedy duo Harrison and Tyler (with Patty Harrison). She talks about her success as a feminist entertainer, how she creates comedy material, and talks about some of her favorite comics. Includes cuts from Harrison and Tyler's live comedy album Wonder Women (1973). Produced by Moira Rankin for Sophie's Inc.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women entertainers.
Feminism
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Tyler, Robin.
Women comedians
reel WZ0290

Kids talk about drugs / produced by Pamela Brooks 29297_P01 WPFW, January 21, 1982

Scope and Contents

A Washington D.C. Public Schools Radio Project with several children (mostly Black) from Savoy Elementary School talking about their experiences with drugs, drug users, pushers, and why they hate drugs. One student, Angela Pyles [sp?] reads her poem "King Heroin." Len Whitney is host, Pamela Brooks is producer, and Bob Frazer is engineer. Self-contained.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Savoy Independent School District
Drug use
reel WZ0002.02

Labor fights for the ERA 29315_P01 WPFW, January 19, 1978

Scope and Contents

This episode of "Them and Us" is asking "Should labor unions support ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?". Hosts are Carmen Delle Donne and Karen Boyd. Guests are Lizzie Corban, Sarah Nelson, and Susan Holleran. Includes live call-ins. Broadcast 1-19-78 Thursday, 7:00pm-8:00pm.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Working classes -- United States.
Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed).
Discrimination in employment -- United States.
Radio call-in shows
Women labor unionists.
Labor unions
Sex discrimination in employment
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0255.08

Mary Jefferson 29306_P01 WPFW, November 9, 1981

Scope and Contents

This episode of Upstream is on Mary Jefferson (1927 - 2002), a jazz and blues singer popular in Washington, D.C. Jefferson talks about young people's relationship to the blues and how the blues really originated with Black women. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Nikki Jeter. Program cuts out early.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Black women -- History.
African American Women
Jefferson, Mary, 1927-2002
Women jazz musicians
reel WZ0255.07

Michelle Parkerson 29305_P01 WPFW, October 8, 1981

Scope and Contents

This episode of Upstream features filmmaker and poet Michelle Parkerson who talks about the economics of being an independent artist. Parkerson talks about her most recent film, "...But Then She's Betty Carter" (1980), and how she supports herself as a filmmaker. Parkerson also reads some of her poetry in the second half of the program. Program begins and ends with a fundraising pitch and is mixed with music. Hosted and produced by Nikki Jeter.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Black women -- History.
African American Women
Parkerson, Michelle
reel WZ0255.04

Miss Black America 1980 29299_P01 WPFW, July 20, 1981

Scope and Contents

This episode of Upstream features Sharon Wright, Miss Black America 1980. Wright was the thirteenth recipient of the title and after relinquishing the crown acted as spokesperson for Coca-Cola. She discusses her activities of the past year and gives advice to young girls who'd like to compete in the pageant. Hosts and producers Marie Smith and Nikki Jeter first discuss the past weekend's Caribbean Festival in Washington, D.C., and end the program with a fundraising pitch.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Black women -- History.
African American Women
Miss Black America Pageant of Hudson County (N.J.)
reel WZ0255.05

National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (Girls) Inc. 29302_P01 WPFW, July 23, 1981

Scope and Contents

This episode of Upstream is on the National Association of Colored Women's (and Girls') Clubs, Inc. (NACWC) and includes interviews with several members of the organization. The guests are Otelia Champion, President of the NACWC; Samella Burton, President of the Northeastern Federation of the NACWC; Delia H. Martin, NACWC delegate for New Jersey and Legislative and Resolution Chairperson for the conference taking place that week; and Ernestine Taylor, Treasurer of the Northeastern Federation of the NACWC. Very beginning of program is cut off. Produced by Nikki Jeter.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Black women -- History.
African American Women
National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.)
reel WZ0046

Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich / reviewed by Doris Grumbach and Carolyn Kizer. 14220_P01 WPFW, December 4, 1976

Scope and Contents

Review of Adrienne Rich's book "Of Woman Born" by Doris Grumbach and Carolyn Kizer. This is the first episode of the WPFW series "Expressions".

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Books -- Reviews.
Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012
Grumbach, Doris
Kizer, Carolyn
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0094

Sexual assault / produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. 14259_P01 WPFW, July 15, 1977

Scope and Contents

On sexism, racism and rape; focus on the cases of Inez Garcia and Joan Little. Host Del Dobbins interviews two black women participants from the Washington Conference on Sexual Assault, held in D.C. in 1977. They are Nkenge Toure, Director, and Michelle Plate, Counselor at the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. They discuss the unique issues that arise when Black women are raped by Black men. Includes music by Sweet Honey in the Rock and Bebe K'Roche. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sexism
Racism.
Rape.
Little, Joan
Garcia, Inez
Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0173

Simplemente Jenny / Helena Solberg and Melanie Maholick ; interviewed by Ron Sutton and Pam Peabody. 14316_P01 WPFW, May 31, 1977

Scope and Contents

Latin American film director Helena Solberg-Ladd and editor Melanie Maholick, discuss their films about women. "Simplemente Jenny," their latest release, examines women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives. The also discuss their previous release "The Double Day" (1975). They are interviewed by Ron Sutton and Pam Peabody.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Films -- Latin America.
Women in the film industry.
Women filmmakers.
Women -- Latin America -- Social conditions.
Maholick, Melanie.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Solberg, Helena
reel WZ0194

The artist as entrepreneur / Rosemary E. Reed Miller ; interviewed by Elaine Heffernan. 15100_P01 WPFW, May 19, 1981

Scope and Contents

Rosemary E. Reed Miller, owner and president of an accessory and clothing store, Toast and Strawberries in Washington,DC. discusses economic alternatives for artists. Host: Elaine Heffernan. Engineer: Naomi Eftis.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Reed Miller, Rosemary E.
Women artists
Black women -- Economic aspects.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women-owned business enterprises
reel WZ0130

The growth of jazz / Betty Carter ; interviewed by Ed Love. 14283_P01 WPFW, 1977~-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

Jazz singer Betty Carter (1930-1998) discusses her life, her music, and the changes in jazz since the 1950's. Interviewed by Ed Love for the series R.P.M. She is is introduced as the foremost black woman jazz artist of the time. Interview includes background information about Carter. Carter then describes the differences in the way musicians work, modern music and individual style. She argues that radio stations should play more diverse music. (Year uncertain: Tape label says "1975", but WPFW wasn't founded until 1977. Betty mentions something happening "15 years ago at this point, '60 and '61, so it was likely recorded in 1976).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women musicians.
Musicians.
African American women jazz singers
Women jazz musicians
Carter, Betty, 1930-1998
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0122A, reel WZ0122B

The Presswomen / produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective 14276_P01_02 WPFW, (1977-uu-uu)?

Scope and Contents

Del Dobbins interviews Ilona O'Sullivan[sp?], Alice Arvin[sp?], Mary Duggan, wives of Washington Post pressmen, about the pressman's strike and the workers' grievances.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Press -- Employees.
Presswomen / produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.**The
STRIKES
Labor unions -- Washington, D.C.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0020A, reel WZ0020B, reel WZ0020C

Three women poets / Gabrielle Edgcomb, Barbara Lefcowitz, and Lee Howard 14203_P01_03 WPFW, September 26, 1976

Scope and Contents

This episode of The poet and the poem focuses on three women poets: Gabrielle Edgcomb (1926-1996), Barbara Lefcowitz (b. 1935), and Lee Howard (1952-2003) interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. Program features readings and discussion of political poetry and women poets.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Political poetry.
Women poets
Three women poets / Gabrielle Edgcomb, Barbara Lefcowitz, and Lee Howard ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri.
Edgcomb, Gabrielle Simon
Lefcowitz, Barbara F. (Barbara Freedgood), 1935-
Howard, Lee, 1952-2003
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0124

To create love with dry eyes: an interview with June Jordan by Deborah Morris. 14278_P01 WPFW, August 9, 1977

Scope and Contents

Poet, essayist, and novelist June Jordan is interviewed by author Deborah Morris. The two discuss Jordan's work and career. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Jordan, June, 1936-2002
Women poets
Authors, Black.
African American women authors
African American lesbians
African American women poets
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0123

Union Maids / Vicky Starr aka Stella Nowicki; produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. 14277_P01 WPFW, April 15, 1977

Scope and Contents

Interview with Vicky Starr (1916-2009), featured as "Stella Nowicki" in the documentary film "Union Maids" (1976) about three Chicago women labor union activists from the 1930s. The film was based on the three women from Chicago (Stella Nowicki, Kate Hyndman, and Sylvia Woods) in the labor history book Rank and File by Staughton and Alice Lynd. The documentary featured interviews with the three women, and was produced by Julia Reichert, James Klein, and Miles Mogulescu. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1977.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Women labor unionists.
Women authors
Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0295.01

Visions: sculptor Altina interviewed by Pam Peabody 29300_P01 WPFW, 1978-11-04

Scope and Contents

WPFW's Visions, a series on visual arts, features an interview with Altina (Schinasi), sculptor of portrait chairs and benches, and with Joan Mister, assistant director of Washington Women's Art Center. Altina talks about her background studying with George Grosz and about the work in her current show at the Touchstone Gallery. Both are interviewed by Pam Peabody, program producer.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Altina, 1907-
Women artists
reel WZ0101

Washington Area Feminist Theatre. 14265_P01 WPFW, 1977-08-10?

Scope and Contents

On this episode of the Survival Clearing House for the Arts, host Naomi Eftis interviews Mary Catherine Wilkins and Pat Graham, members of the Board of Directors of WAFT -- Washington Area Feminist Theater. WAFT started in 1972, as a result of a production that was sponsored by the D.C. chapter of the National Organization for Women. Program recorded in August 1977 and produced by Jerry Ackerman.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Theater -- Washington, D.C.
Washington Area Feminist Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
Feminist theater.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel WZ0288

We regret to inform you: a radio drama by Grace Cavalieri 29292_P01 WPFW, 1978-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

This radio drama was written by Grace Cavalieri, directed by Dorothy Biondi [sp?], and consists of four characters: Doctor (Jeremy Gage); Nurse Jane (Ellen Mead); Nurse Brown (Kate van Burick); Allen (Cotter Smith). The story: a mad scientist has created the perfect machine. He hires a night watchman to stay with it until its heart stops. The nurse on duty and the watchman collaborate to save the world. This play is published (it won 2nd place in a national writing contest) and was performed regionally throughout the country. The play's full title is "We Regret to Inform You That the Destiny of Future Generations Is Uncertain Because of a General Inability On the Part of All Night Watchmen." This program was made possible in part with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the D.C. Commission for the Arts. Contains sensitive language. Chip Gallo and Mike Grambo, sound engineers.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Radio plays.
reel WZ0255.06

Women in Washington, D.C. 29303_P01 WPFW, August 7, 1981

Scope and Contents

This episode of Upstream is on women and dating in Washington, D.C. Topics covered include dating as a working woman, fidelity, and prescribed gender roles. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Black women -- History.
African American Women
Dating
 

Pacifica National Programming American Women recordings Series 6 1973-1982

Physical Description: 7 Reels

Scope and Contents

The series “Pacifica National Programming” refers to programs that were created for broadcasting on Pacifica’s satellite network, meaning they did not originate at a specific station, but likely did broadcast on at least one of the stations.
reel PZ0031

A Packet beating like a heart / by Eloise Klein Healy ; recorded by Catherine Stifter. 8420_P01 Pacifica National Programming, 1980-12-uu~

Scope and Contents

Eloise Klein Healy reads from her newly published book of poetry "A Packet Beating Like A Heart." Healy, a Los Angeles-based poet, gives a moving, energetic reading which was recorded live at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, December 1980. Poems read: Going away -- You won't love me and I learn death -- She was my friend, too -- It could have all happened and part of it did -- Dark -- A mile out of town -- Poem for my youth/poem for young women -- Edging -- Like a woman in a short story -- A packet beating like a heart -- About losing -- I name your love for me -- Driven to meet you in rainy weather -- Generous -- I spent the day with you -- Finally -- After the last call home. Catherine Stifter, recorder.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Healy, Eloise Klein.
Poetry, Modern.
Women poets
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel PZ0047.10

Life and death : the issue of abortion (Episode 10 of 15) 8440_P01 Pacifica National Programming, (1982-11-27)?

Scope and Contents

The tenth in the series Bill of Rights Radio Education Project, co-sponsored by the Pacifica Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Documentary presenting both sides of the abortion issue and a history of abortion in the United States. Includes interviews with James Moore, Peggy Bendroff, Rhonda Copeland, John Gorvey, Thomas Gray, Charles Rice, C. Everett Coop, and Marianne Warren. / produced by Laurie Garrett ; narrated by Kathy McAnally. Adi Gevins, executive producer; Marie Ritzo, research associate; David Rapkin, project engineer. From Folio: "Abortion: A matter of life and death. The issue of abortion has touched national nerves and goes well beyond an individual woman's decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. It has expanded to include euthanasia, the family as an institution, sexuality, contraception, religious freedom, and who in our society should be granted the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Program producer Laurie Garrett."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Gevins, Adi.
Garrett, Laurie
Birth control
Hyde Amendment (Proposed).
Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Right-to-life movement.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards.
Women's rights
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Euthanasia.
Abortion
Civil rights.
Amendments to the United States Constitution. Bill of Rights.
ROE VS. WADE
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
 

Margaret Thatcher / by Helen Boaden. (Part 2 only) PZ0035 Pacifica National Programming, 1981?-uu-uu

Scope and Contents

The second of two parts of BBC's Helen Boaden's report on the effects of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies on small businesses, both old and new. Features interviews with Brian Walden, director of the London Enterprise Agency at the London Chamber of Commerce; Simon Hoskins, brewery owner; the director of a small manufacturing firm, unnamed; Robin Murray, economist at Sussex University; and Charlie Rossi, councillor for the London Borough of Camden and rat-catcher. PRA does not currently have the first part of this recording.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Boaden, Helen.
Women politicians
Thatcher, Margaret.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Small businesses
reel PZ0041A, reel PZ0041B

May 3, 1981 march on the Pentagon / Bella Abzug 28906_P01_02 Pacifica National Programming, (1981-05-03)?

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May 3, 1981 March on the Pentagon organized by the People's Antiwar Coalition/May 3 Coalition. Speech on American militarism. Actuality from march. Includes speech by Bella Abzug. This protest is against military involvement with El Salvador. Recording was made from about 11am until 2pm. Part one contains speeches by Michio Kaku, Sister Geraldine (Gerri) Brake, and Bella Abzug. Bella Abzug is also interviewed after her speech, which is cut off and contiuned in part two. (Interviewee is Ronnie Lovler). Part two contains a speech by Lori Feinstein[sp?], music by Sweet Honey in the Rock, speeches by Sister Theresa Kane, Ida Torres, Reverand Herbert Daughtry, and Arnoldo Ramos, and more music by Sweet Honey in the Rock. Other Pacifica voices heard include Nan Rubin, Askia Mohammed, and the Pacifica National News Service.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998
Protests, demonstrations, vigils, etc. -- Washington, D.C.
Militarism -- United States.
March on the Pentagon / Bella Abzug.
May 3 Coalition
People's Anti-war Mobilization (PAM)
Anti-war demonstrations
Kaku, Michio.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
reel PZ0492

Second Birth: Anais Nin At College Of Marin, California, 1973 21730_P01 Pacifica National Programming, 1973-uu-uu

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Anais Nin [1903-1977] speech to students at College of Marin, California, 1973. She discusses the necessity of a second birth--the search for inner strength and the initiation of indidvidual growth. She believes the only way we as people can face the despairs and horrors of history is to conquer our own prejudices, become more sensitive and develop empathy for others. Audience questions are repeated by program announcer. Recorded 1973.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Women authors
reel PZ0073

The end of E.R.A. news conference / Eleanor Smeal. 13700_P01 Pacifica National Programming, 1982-06-24~

Scope and Contents

Eleanor Smeal gives a speech on the non-ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, sex discrimination, and the continuing struggle for women's rights at the National NOW headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Smeal, Eleanor.
Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed).
Women's rights
National Organization for Women
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
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