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| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto / Edith Millman ; interviewed by Mitchel Fox. |
Interview by Mitchell Joy with Warsaw Ghetto survivor, Edith Millman (?-2009). Mrs. Millman describes the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto when the Jews were forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions and taken away. Mrs. Millman describes life in the ghetto in detail. She offers an explanation as to why Jews didn't resist. She details how ghetto inhabitant were reluctant to report the death of a family member in order to continue receiving the decease's food rations. She describes the assistance from the JOINT Distribution Committee and how her father continued to work. Produced by Pacifica affiliate station WUHY, Philadelphia (now WHYY). Recorded on April 18, 1975. Broadcast on KPFK on May 29, 1978 (and possibly October 27, 1976). |
Millman, Edith, 1924-2009, World War II -- Warsaw -- Personal narratives., Jews -- Warsaw -- History., Jewish women in the Holocaust, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC2585 | |
| The Senate investigates CIA funding in Angola / testimony by Henry Kissinger ; reported by Katherine Ferguson. |
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on African Affairs questions Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on U.S. aid to Angola. The subcommittee includes: Senator Dick Clark (D-IA), Sen. Charles Percy (R-IA), and Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE). Part 1 of this program features WBAI reporter Katherine Ferguson giving a background of the Angolan conflict, followed by the subcommittee's opening remarks, and Henry Kissinger presenting his views on Angola to the Subcommittee. In Part 2, the subcommittee questions Kissinger. Recorded live in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Room on January 29, 1976. |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Angola., C. I. A., Clark, Dick., Kissinger, Henry, 1923-, Percy, Charles H., 1919-, Biden, Joseph R., Revolutions -- Angola., Intelligence service -- United States., Economic assistance, American -- Angola., World politics -- 1975-1985., Senate investigates CIA funding in Angola / testimony by Henry Kissinger ; reported by Katherine Ferguson.**The, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | IZ0212 | |
| Lesbian Pride Week, 1977 (Part 2 only): Coming Out Proud and A Personal Politic |
Actuality from the panel "Coming Out Proud" and the beginning of the panel "A Personal Politic" held during Lesbian Pride Week (1977), organized by the Lesbian Feminist Liberation. The panels were held at the Women's Center in New York, NY. Speakers in the "Coming Out Proud" panel are Mary Ann Antonelli, Carmen Garcia, Pandy Conrad[sp?], Doris London. The speaker in "A Personal Politic" is Andrea Dworkin. Pasternak introduces saying that she's reading from "Moons"[sp?] about her appearance on the David Susskind show in 1965. (audio is warbly) |
Lesbian Feminist Liberation, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Lesbianism, Lesbians -- Personal narratives, Dworkin, Andrea., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians | IZ1511 | |
| Elizabeth G. Flynn interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the late chairman of the American Communist Party and a member of the party since 1927 talks with KPFA Program Director Elsa Knight Thompson about the aims and methods of the party's political activities. They also discuss the status of the party and its members in the various cultural and geographic areas of the United States, including a law in Texas that prescribes the death penalty for belonging to the Communist Party. |
Communist Party., Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley., Third parties (United States politics), American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB1391 | |
| Laying down the tower / Marge Piercy. |
Poet, novelist and activist Marge Piercy (1936 - ) reads her eleven-poem sequence Laying Down the Tower, a radical meditation on the ancient symbols of the tarot deck - a political reading for the overturning of a repressed society. No intro or outro, and sound mostly audible in left channel only. |
Poetry., Women poets, Piercy, Marge., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC0665 | |
| What's up: Verna Gillis interviews erotic film star Jamie Gillis |
Jamie Gillis, star of The Opening of Misty Beethoven and Through the Looking Glass, discusses his life as a porno film star. Interview conducted by and program produced by Verna Gillis. |
Pornographic film industry, Gay pornographic films, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Sex | IZ1371 | |
| Women in Spain |
In this program, panelists Linda Gould Levine, professor at Montclair State College, Gloria Feiman Waldman, professor at York College, and Elizabeth Starčević, professor at City College of New York discuss the women's movement in Spain. The program was produced by Dave Metzger and Judith Murray, who was also the moderator of the panel. This program was originally aired November 15, 1977 as part of an afternoon devoted to Spain in Transition. |
Women -- Spain., Spain In Transition, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | IZ1451 | |
| Womantruth / Megan Terry ; produced by Clare Spark. |
Originally titled "Woman Fibbers." A funny and fast-moving collage of songs, poetry and prose readings built around an interview with feminist playwright Megan Terry, to expose the myth that women are deceitful and need a man to reveal them to themselves. The structure of the program echoes the principles of surrealism; stream of consciousness, chance, transformation, surprise, and the aura of madness. Antoinette Bower reads "The Neutral Man" by surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington. Roscoe Lee Brown plays Jarry's Ubu, and reads poems by Wallace Stevens and Bea Lillie. Program begins with a reading of Brecht and a discussion of his work. Songs include "Surabaya Johnny" sung by Lotte Lenya and "You can leave your hat on" by Randy Newman. Interview with Megan Terry begins at 00:11:00, interviewed in New York City in December 1973. "Women fibbers" was produced, written, and directed by Claire Spark for Pacifica Radio with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. End credits: We've heard the voices of Lotte Lenya, David McCann, John Willett, Roscoe Lee Browne, Antoinette Bower, and Randy Newman, interpreting Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Alfred Jarry, Jacques de Lacretelle, Leonora Carrington, Wallace Stevens, Ian Dunlop, Fred Lonidier, Karl Marx, and Randy Newman. |
Terry, Megan., Women in literature., Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, The Sour Apple Tree, Spark, Clare. | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Theater | BC1681 | |
| Women in the arts II (Episode 2 of 5) |
Judy Chicago reviews the growth of feminism in the arts and discusses the new consciousness of women in the art community and the necessity of restructuring that community. The focus of this discussion is the Market Street Project, a show organized by male artists which opened in Venice, CA in November 1971, and how dozens of women artists organized for their inclusion in the show. Participants: Miriam Schapiro, Susan Titleman, Connie Zaer, Judy Chicago, SP Architect of Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts, LA. Miriam previously erroneously cataloged as Shapiro. |
Chicago, Judy, 1939-, Schapiro, Miriam, 1923-, Titleman, Susan, Zaer, Connie, Art, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century, Women in the arts., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Feminism | BC0453.02 | |
| Modern contraceptive techniques / moderated by Dr. W. Dieter Bergman |
Seminar on "Modern Contraceptive Techniques" held by the Planned Parenthood Association of Alameda County at Kaiser Center in Oakland on April 10, 1969. Dr. W. Dieter Bergman introduces the seminar and speaker Dr. Alan Guttmacher. Dr. Donald H. Minkler introduces the next several speakers, each speaking on a specific contraceptive technique. First is Dr. Harry Rudell, associate director of the Population Council in New York speaks on the pill and has been published in the Ladies Home Journal. The next speaker is Dr. Jerome S. Harris, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at John Hopkins and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Sinai Hospital in Maryland. Harris discusses IUDs. Then, Dr. H. Curtis Wood, Jr., medical consultant to the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, speaking on sterilization. Then a Q&A for the last 25 minutes. |
Birth control, Contraceptives., Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Modern contraceptive techniques / moderated by Dr. W. Dieter Bergman., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Bergman, Dieter, 1920-, Guttmacher, Alan E., Minkler, Donald H. | American Women -- Reproductive rights | BB2230 |