Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre | PRA Archive # |
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| Women in the workforce in Canada |
Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Margaret Catley-Carlson, Deputy Executive Director UNICEF about Women in the Workforce in Canada. |
Catley-Carlson, Margaret, Women workers., CANADA, Women employees -- Canada, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- International women | BC2196.25 | |
| Samille Gooden interviewed by Angela Davis |
Angela Davis speaks with Samille Gooden, president of local 1695 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), on Black women in the labor movement. |
Gooden, Samille., Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-, Labor unions -- Minority membership., Minority women -- United States., Women, Black., Women labor unionists., African Americans, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Work and unions | AZ0147 | |
| Singer Bessie Smith (Episode 21) |
A program about blues singer Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937), with many examples of her music and readings from three texts about Smith. Presented by Fleur Helsingor and Jane Ayres. Produced by Renee Roatcap. Self-contained. Contents: 1. Gulf Coast Blues; 2. Aggravatin' Papa; 3. Program intro and first reading by Helsingor about Bessie Smith; 4. Fankie Blues; 5. Moonshine Blues; 6. Empty Bed Blues; 7. Put it Right Here; 8. Second reading from Chris Albertson's biography of Smith, "Bessie" (Stein & Day, 1972); 9. Please Help Me; 10. Me and My Gin; 11. Moan You Mourners; 12. Third reading from a Jazz Record magazine article about Bessie Smith from September 1947; Shipwreck Blues; 13. Third reading; 14. Gimme a Pigfoot; 15. Take Me for a Buggy Ride; 16. Down in the Dumps; 17. Program outro. 18. Ballad of Bessie Smith. Master Joan Medlin. |
Women composers., Women musicians., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Smith, Bessie. | American Women -- Music and musicians | AZ1132.21 | |
| Bard at large / Rae Lake Costos. |
Rae Lake Costos is the "Bard at Large" of KPFT, Houston. She defines a bard as a person who travels about carrying the news of heroes from place to place. In our age, the heroes are those who help us define what spiritual freedom is. While visiting from Houston, Ms. Costos recorded these thoughts about the rebirth of the human soul. Through her own poetry and that of Edna St. Vincent Millay, beautifully read, Ms. Costos speaks of our need to give birth to our inner self, the intuitive self beyond reason, emotion or the senses. Produced by Lois Hansen. |
Poetry., Costos, Rae Lake, Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- New age/Wicca | BC0935 | |
| New writers forum: March 28, 1968 (Episode 5 of 7) |
New writers forum Episode 5 of 7. Lew Welch and Phillip Whalen preside over a program of poetry including themselves, David Meltzer, Charles Upton and Terrance Cuddy. Recorded at the Straight Theatre in San Francisco and broadcast live on March 28, 1968. |
Cuddy, Terrence., Welch, Lew., Whalen, Philip., Meltzer, David., Upton, Charles., Poetry., New writers forum., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | BB1854.05 | |
| Frieda Aaron, survivor / interviewed by Barbara Londin. |
Frieda Aaron, a survivor of three concentration camps and the Warsaw ghetto, tells the story of her experience. As a girl of eleven and a half in 1939, she risked her life by attending a clandestine school, and only narrowly escaped death when her family underground bunker was discovered, a few months before the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. In a succession of camps, she became "bones, sores and scabs," but maintained the hope and courage that were possessed by all who survived. Even after liberation of the camp by the Russians, her family was hunted by Polish fascists. Today she tells and retells her story, driven by the memory of an inscription on a camp latrine: "May he be damned who after gaining freedom remains silent." Produced by Barbara Londin for WBAI. |
Londin, Barbara., Aaron, Frieda., World War II -- Jews., Jews in Poland., Concentration camps -- Germany., Frieda Aaron, survivor / interviewed by Barbara Londin., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | IZ0051 | |
| Nuclear disarmament: moving forward / Charlene Spretnak, Willis Harman and Bill Wahpepah |
An excerpt from the "Nuclear Disarmament: Moving Forward" conference sponsored by Meeting of the Ways, held in San Francisco, September 23-25, 1983. Charlene Spretnak (1946 - ), author and ecofeminist, speaks about the founding ideas of the Green Party in Germany and how it influenced the nascent American Green Party. Willis Harman (1918 - 1997), social theorist and futurist, speaks about the need to rethink ideas of Western industrialism. Bill Wahpepah (1937 - 1987), American Indian activist (Kickapoo and Sauk Fox), speaks about the need to include struggling minorities in the peace movement. Moderator of the panel is not introduced. Tape ends before Wahpepah's speech concludes. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Greens/Green Party USA, Peace movement. | American Women -- Politicians and politics, American Women -- Peace and Antinuclear activism | AZ1105 | |
| Crazy Ruthie / Ruthie Gorton |
Songwriter and performer, Ruthie Gorton, discusses and demonstrates her songs exploring the women's movement, the South, North-South misconceptions, revolution, and her life.- BROADCAST: KPFA, 18 May 1971. |
Women musicians., Protest songs., Gorton, Ruthie., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | BB4224 | |
| Conflicting interests: city issues with Ruth Messinger (Episode 1) |
Aircheck of program number one in the "Conflicting interests" series. Ruth Messinger, New York City Council member, on city issues. Her guest is Paul du Brul, urban planner, journalist, and author of The Permanent Government (Penguin Books, 1981). |
Messinger, Ruth W., New York City -- Economic aspects., Urban transportation., Du Brul, Paul, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Politicians and politics | IZ0492.09 | |
| What the woman lived : Louise Bogan in her letters and poems / produced by Rick Harris and Bill Kortum |
A dramatization of poet Louise Bogan's (1897-1970) life recorded in May 1975 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Actors Marian Seldes and Kathryn Walker give a dramatic reading of Louise Bogan's letters and poems. Adapted for the stage by Janet Sternburg and Corinne Jacker. Directed by Corinne Jacker. Produced by Janet Sternburg. Broadcast with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, publisher of "The Blue Estuaries" by Louise Bogan; and Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, publishers of "What the Woman Lived: Selected Letters of Louise Bogan", edited by Ruth Limmer. Produced for radio by Rick Harris and Bill Kortum. |
Seldes, Marian., Walker, Kathryn., Jacker, Corinne., Harris, Rick., Sternburg, Janet, BOGAN, LOUISE, 1897-1970., Poets., Radio adaptations., What the Woman lived : Louise Bogan in her letters and poems / produced by Rick Harris and Bill Kortum., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Theater | BC2294 |