Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
StoreItem |
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| Domestic violence and the homeless women: Carol Mackay and Mollie Lowery |
Two speeches at a Domestic Violence Services Conference: Carol Mackay's talk on "rural women and their special needs" focuses on planning to end domestic violence against women in Wyoming (20 min.). Mollie Lowery, organizer of Los Angeles shelters for the homeless, entitles her talk "On a list of 100 concerns, where do you think earthquake safety rates with homeless women?" Lowery describes types of homeless women, why they are homeless, and what some of them are doing about it. Lowery is currently with Los Angeles Men's Place (L.A.M.P.) and also speaks of another project called Jill's Place (domestic violence shelters or safe zones). This tape is undated, but L.A.M.P. was established in 1985, so this recording is likely from the late 1980s. |
Family violence, Homeless women, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Violence against women | KZ2639 | |
| Documentary on the Lowell Mill Girls and early textile mill workers |
Documentary on women labor reform pioneers in the United States with a focus on the Lowell Mills Girls who struggled for better working conditions, wages, hours in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1800s. Documentary includes music, readings, and narration. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women workers., Women textile workers, Women labor unionists., Labor unions -- Textile workers. | American Women -- Work and unions | KZ2598 | |
| Maryknoll Sisters on Leon, Nicaragua, 1981 |
Talk by Maryknoll Sisters recorded during a June 1981 visit to Nicaragua by a study group of KPFK listeners. Two sisters, Julie Miller and Pat Murphy, talk about their work in Leon, Nicaragua. Background to the Maryknoll Sisters order (Catholic) is given and how they became involved in the Nicaraguan revolution, and how siding with the poor marginalized them. Music and narration. Produced by Molly Bosted. |
León (Nicaragua), Maryknoll Sisters, NICARAGUA, Revolution -- Nicaragua., MISSIONARIES, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- International women | KZ2569 | |
| 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 | |
| Rosa Parks: Alabama bus boycotts start |
Box label: Voice of Rosa Parks heard by phone telling her story of refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus [in Montgomery, Alabama December 1, 1955 sparking the anti-segregation bus boycotts]. She tells this same story in a much younger sounding voice in a 1962 broadcast by Sidney Rogers: Archive #BB0566. |
Rosa Parks, African American women civil rights workers, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956. | American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | KZ2466 | |
| I remember Mama |
Collage of interviews with women talking about mothering. Recorded and broadcast: May 9, 1982. Produced by Marsha Steinberg and Suzi Weissman. |
Motherhood, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Parenting and children | KZ2393 | |
| Charlotte Bunch: I'm a woman |
Charlotte Bunch speaks about the feminist movement and receives comments from reporters and audience, discussing personal experience and views. Bunch opens with a speech about being a feminist in an anti-feminist environment. Anecdotes about getting a job, feminist turmoil, looking back through one's past to gain perspective on current situations, relates feelings about the feminist movement, dating back to 1968. Recorded and broadcast circa 1978. Includes Q & A, during which Laura X of Woman's History Project speaks, too. |
Bunch, Charlotte, 1944-, Feminism, Women’s History Research Center, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Feminism, American Women -- Authors and journalists | KZ2333 | |
| Ragtime women / Max Morath interviewed by Mario Casseta |
Max Morath discusses his discovery of over 100 ragtime piano compositions by middle class white women. Ragtime was the popular musical form in early 20th century United States. Morath plays selections from his Vanguard recording which features the work of nine such women, which Morath himself recorded from the original manuscripts. In addition, Morath discusses the experience of these composers as both writers and musicians. Interviewed by Mario Casseta. For and edited version of this recording, see archive number KZ1970. Recorded: KPFK, 8 Jan. 1978. No broadcast information on the tap. Restricted distribution rights. No cassette sales. |
Women composers -- History., Jazz music -- History., Ragtime women / Max Morath ; interviewed by Mario Casseta., Morath, Max., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | KZ1929 | |
| Arttalks: Alice Aycock interviewed by Jane Hall and Don Joyce (Episode 4) |
Sculptor Alice Aycock (b. 1946) discusses her life and work with Jane Hall and Don Joyce. Recorded at the San Francisco Art Institute, Summer 1979. Broadcast: KPFK, 1980. Arttalks is a series of interviews and verbal art, broadcast alternating Fridays on KPFA. |
Joyce, Don., Aycock, Alice., Women artists -- Personal narratives., Sculptors -- Personal narratives., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists | KZ1426 | |
| Battles, feats and solitude: the writings of Colette / produced by Maureen McIlroy |
Dramatic documentary on the life and views of Colette and her feminist writings. An original documentary by Maureen McIlroy. The script was taken from the works and letters of Colette and the autobiography of Maurice Goudeket. Colette was played by Maureen McIlroy; her mother Sido was portrayed by Eve Brenner; Henri de Jouvenel by George Murdoch; Maurice Goudeket by Bill Cort; Georges Wague by Harry Lessen. Others in the cast included Karen Bekar, Bill Myers, Carol Kanarsky, Jim Rosen, Craig Abernathy, Mike Hodel, Jim Berland, Peter Sutheim, and Janet Dodson. Technical direction by Peter Sutheim. Editing by Janet Dodson, Tom Biel, and Emily Schiller. Mike Hodel was the announcer. |
Women authors -- Biography., Feminism and literature., Colette, 1873-1954, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Autobiographies and Biographies | KZ1373 |