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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| And not to yield: Ella Winter interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Ella Winter, author, foreign correspondent, world traveler, interviewed in studio by Elsa Knight Thompson concerning her life, views on society, government, communications. Ella was born in Australia, grew up in England, attended London School of Economics, and was married to two famous husbands: Lincoln Steffens and Donald Ogden Stewart. Her travels and observations about the Soviet Union and China are given here and in her autobiography, "And Not to Yield." Winter tells Thompson that "the pristine purity of revolutions" soon withers away, and the state with its bureaucratic complex necessary to a planned economy, contrary to Marxist dogma, is reinforced. Humans, with the keen edge of starvation withdrawn and enjoying an unaccustomed quantity of consumer goods and gadgets, revert to an anti-social state of mind which is a problem common to the USA as well as the socialist countries. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Winter, Ella, 1898-1980, Thompson, Elsa Knight, Women authors, Socialism -- Analysis. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | AZ1083 | |
| Andrea Dworkin interviewed by Josy Catoggio |
Feminist writer Andrea Dworkin talks about her latest novel, Mercy, with Josy Catoggio of KPFK's Feminist Magazine. Dworkin talks about the parts of the book that are autobiographical, including her experiences in a house of detention where she was sent for anti-war demonstrations. Dworkin says she was raped in prison by doctors and that this rendered her mute. She also discusses her insistence that pornography be outlawed as it has a direct link to violence against women. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Dworkin, Andrea., Catoggio, Josy., Feminist literature. | American Women -- Radical Feminism, American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ4085 | Andrea Dworkin interviewed by Josie Cattoggio (CD) |
| Angela Davis and Ralph Abernathy : a press conference. |
Ralph Abernathy and Angela Davis speak about an upcoming rally to be held in San Jose, CA on May 20, 1972. They also speak about the need for solidarity between anti-Vietnam groups in the fight. Originally a 2-part program, but part A is a duplicate of BC0763. BB5364B is now BB5364. |
Abernathy, Ralph David., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Angela Davis and Ralph Abernathy : a press conference., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Vietnam conflict, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Activists | BB5364 | |
| Angela Davis at Occidental College |
Angela Davis, faculty member at San Francisco College, and sponsored by the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, speaks at Occidental College during Black History Month about her experiences with African American struggles during the 1960s and on to the present and the benefits of civil rights actions for all minorities. Her personal history includes experiences of growing up in Birmingham, Alabama; finishing high school in New York City; her arrest, jail time, and acquittal in 1972 related to the August 7, 1970 Marin County Prison rebellion in which weapons Davis had purchased (for self defense during her days teaching at UCLA in 1969) were used; her struggles to establish Black Studies Departments at California colleges, and other highlights. Reel contains several edits. Produced by Pam Burton. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | KZ2487 | |
| Angela Davis interviewed by Samori Marksman |
Angela Davis is interviewed by Samori Marksman, on program "Brunch", Saturday July 19, 1980. Davis was running for Vice President of the Communist Party. Topics include Israel, Palenstine, Zionism. Some phone calls included and leader edited. Some calls are cut but Davis' response is there. |
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Israel -- Foreign relations -- Middle East., Communist Party., Elections -- United States -- 1980., Capitalism -- History and criticism., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Politicians and politics | IZ0622 | |
| Angela Davis speaking at the University of Houston World Issues Conference. |
A speech by the activist Angela Davis (1944 - ) recorded at the University of Houston on April 2, 1973. The speech was part of the University of Houston World Issues Conference, "Age of Revolution: Agenda for the World," sponsored by the UH Student Association and the UH Program Council. Davis criticizes the American government's capitalist interests, applauds international revolutionary efforts such as armed struggle against colonialism, and calls for socialist revolution as the path for liberation. |
Communists -- United States., Blacks -- Social conditions., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists | BC1370 | Angela Davis. (CD) |
| Angela's birthday. |
A panel discussion about Angela Davis (1944 - ) and her contributions to American society. The discussion centers around the furor over Davis' hiring at UCLA; the UC Regents had stripped her of her title owing to her political beliefs. Panelists includes Victor Wolfenstein, Professor of Political Science at UCLA and co-chairman of the Staff Committee to Free Angela Davis; Donald Kalish, Professor of Philosophy at UCLA and the faculty member who hired Davis; Franklin Alexander, co-chairman of the National Committee to Free Angela Davis and member of the Che-Lumumba Club, of which Davis is also a member; and Shirley Williams, Executive Organizer of the National Committee to Free Angela Davis. The moderator is Dave Stevens of KPFK. |
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Communist Party. | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BB4210 | Angela's birthday. (CD) |
| Angela's homecoming. |
A few days after activist Angela Davis was found not guilty of all the charges against her, she spoke at the Embassy Auditorium in Los Angeles about her experiences in prison and her commitment to the prison movement. She explores the value of organizing in order to bring about prison reform, how both men and women are political prisoners, and the movement to abolish systemic oppression. She is introduced by Leo Branton, one of her attorneys. Davis' speech was recorded by Emil Freed of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. |
Blacks -- Political activity., Prison reform., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | BC0886 | Angela's homecoming. (CD) |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke (Episode 3 of 6) |
Sarah and Angelina Grimke: slaveholders turned abolitionists, the first American women to give public lectures and to advocate women’s rights. The third in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879), known as the Grimké sisters, were 19th-century Southern American Quakers, educators, and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights. |
Women -- United States -- History., Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879, Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873, Abolitionists., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women's history | BB3802.03 | |
| Ann Darr reads her poetry |
Poet Ann Darr reads selections from her two books. Ann Darr has lived in Iowa, where she was born and went to college, to New York City, where she worked as a scriptwriter for radio, and then enlisted in the Women's Airforce Service Pilots during WWII, where she served as a military pilot. In 1970 she won the Discovery Award from the New York Poetry Center. This was followed by the publication of her first two books, St. Ann's Gut (William Morrow, 1971) and The Myth of a Woman's Fist (William Morrow, 1973). This program was produced by Paul Oppenheimer for the Drama & Literature Department of WBAI, New York. |
Poetry -- Women authors., Darr, Ann, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BC3001 |