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Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # | StoreItem |
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| Bernadette Devlin speaking at Barnard College (Part 1 only) |
Bernadette Devlin [McAliskey] speaks at Barnard College on November 20, 1976. This is Part 1 of 2. Tape of Part 2 is missing. Devlin was on tour in the U.S. to educate and state her point of view on "the Irish problem". She outlines the history (from 1920) of the struggle of Ireland to separate from British domination. Devlin notes that the Catholics in Northern Ireland never voted to be part of the North, that the 60's Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. inspired them to rebel, and that by 1969 the movement split over objectives: a civil rights movement vs. a "smash the state" movement. Not self-contained. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin, 1947-, Northern Ireland -- Politics and government. | American Women -- International women | IZ0705 | |
| Bernadette Devlin speaks at LeConte School with a short interview by Hal Levin. |
Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) (1947 - ), Northern Irish revolutionary and member of the British Parliament, speaks at a gathering sponsored by the International Socialists of Berkeley. Her talk is followed by a question and answer session and the final portion of this program is a short interview with Devlin conducted by Hal Levin of KPFA and other members of the press. |
Ireland -- Politics and government., McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin, 1947-, Northern Ireland., Northern Ireland -- Social conditions., Northern Ireland -- Politics and government., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- International women | BC0187 | |
| Bernadette Devlin speech on Northern Ireland |
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. |
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 | American Women -- International women | WZ0164 | |
| Bernice Johnson Reagon: Black Women's issues |
Speech by Bernice Johnson Reagon, given November 11, 1980 at Barnard College's Reid Lectureship Women's Issues Luncheon, titled "My Black Mothers and Sisters: On Beginning a Cultural Autobiography." Tape begins with Reagon singing a poem by June Jordan. She speaks of Black women's roles in her mother's generation, the courageous actions of Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer [1917-1977] to register to vote, the Civil Rights Movement, and the need to act in the 1980s. She is a founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock (a Black singing group) started in 1973. 47:00 red leader followed by Question and Answer section. Reagon explains the start of Sweet Honey in the Rock and her work at the Smithsonian Institute on Black American Culture (collecting spirituals and gospel music). Not self-contained. Some edits during speech. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-, African American women musicians, Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Hamer, Fannie Lou, Black women -- Personal narratives. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Music and musicians | IZ0711 | |
| Better early than latent : lesbian and gay youth / Christi Kissell and Andrew Exler |
Christi Kissell, Program Director of Lesbian Central at the Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center in Los Angeles, and Andrew Exler of the Orange County Gay Community Center address issues of lesbian and gay youth: school, education, and sex education discrimination; age of consent laws, in terms of power imbalance; and legislation and litigation on youth issues. Contains call-in questions from the audience. Produced by Catherine Stifter, KPFK. |
Stifter, Catherine., Exler, Andrew., Discrimination in education., Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc., Lesbians -- Social conditions, Lesbian teenagers, Age of consent., Gay children., Better early than latent : lesbian and gay youth / Christi Kissell and Andrew Exler ; produced by Catherine Stifter., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Lesbians, American Women -- Parenting and children | KZ1052 | |
| Bettina Aptheker interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson |
Bettina Aptheker discusses with Elsa Knight Thompson her reasons for being a Communist Party member, her experiences as a young woman, traveling in Europe, and various related subjects. Knight mentions that it has been a year since Sproul Hall and the FSM activities, and asks Aptheker to discuss where she thinks the student movement is now, how she feels about her election as one of the three student reps to the campus rules committee, and other current concerns. |
Aptheker, Bettina, Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), Communists -- California., Women -- Political activity., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB1280 | |
| Betty Friedan vs. the Third World. |
Betty Friedan, co-founder of the National Organization of Women and author of The Feminine Mystique, addresses questions from Third World women of the press on such issues as the family's future, how American women handle family as well as a career, and how Third World women's problems contrast with those of women from more developed countries. Recorded at the United Nations' International Women's Year conference in Mexico City, June 1975. Produced by Barbara Cady for Pacifica Radio. |
Third World -- Social conditions., Women -- Social conditions., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Friedan, Betty, International Women's Year, 1975 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- International women | BC2377 | Betty Friedan vs. the Third World (CD) |
| Betty Pilkington interviews U.N. Ambassador Medhi Vakil about Iran |
U.N. Correspondent Betty Pilkington interviews United Nations Ambassador to Iran, Mehdi Vakil, on Iran's National Day, the birthday of the reigning Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, October 26, 1967. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Pilkington, Betty., IRAN, Iran -- Politics and government. | American Women -- Authors and journalists | IZ1386 | |
| Beyond categories / by Janet Spears Schaefer |
Janet Spears Schaefer, a student in San Francisco State College's Department of Social Science, delivers a lecture "Beyond Categories" about her personal development in life. One of a series of talks by SF State College students exploring student concerns about American culture, politics and education. Professor Otto Butz of the Department of Social Science edited the series which was published by Harper and Row under the title, "To Make a Difference". |
Personality and culture., Students -- San Francisco (Calif.)., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | BB0522.07 | |
| Billie Dixon interviewed by Herbert Feinstein |
Mr. Feinstein interviews actress Billie Dixon, who performed Jean Harlow in Michael McClure's play The Beard. Recorded September 1, 1967 in the green room at the Encore Theater, San Francisco, California. They discuss her and her cohorts' arrests for "lewd conduct in a public place" during her performance in The Beard. |
Dixon, Billie., Actresses., McClure, Michael. Beard, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Theater | BB2012.30 |