Identifier:

Series 4

Dates:

Inclusive 1960-1993, bulk Bulk 1963-1982,

Extent:

801 Reels

Scope and content:

Pacifica’s third station, WBAI-New York, was acquired when philanthropist Louis Schweitzer donated it to the network in 1960. Originally a commercial station, Schweitzer was dissatisfied with the direction WBAI was headed, and had become a fan of Pacifica Radio in California.

The American Women collection has the most recordings coming out of WBAI-New York, including many women-focused series including Pacifica’s first Consciousness Raising series (1971-1972) produced by Nanette Rainone, and her follow up to that series, “The Women’s School”; Viv Sutherland’s series “Women’s Studies” (1974-1976); Eileen Zalisk’s “The Velvet Sledgehammer”(1978-1985); “Everywomanspace” (1979-1982), hosted by several women including Donna Allegra, Cora Weiss, Judith Levin and Betty Levinson (Women’s Legal Clinic); and Blanche Wiessen Cooke’s” Women in the World in the 1980s” (1982-1984).

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