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Dial 'O' for operator / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone.

Program Title:
Dial 'O' for operator / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone.
PRA Archive #: 
BC1225
Description: 

Examination of the New York Telephone worker. Includes interviews with Louella Smith, who filed charges of racial discrimination with the State Division of Human Rights against New York Telephone and had her case taken up by the Center for United Labor Action, as well as other operators, service representatives and management. Produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone, with technical direction by Peter Zanger.

Original tape box image: 
Station: 
WBAI
Date Recorded on: 
26 Oct. 1972.
Date Broadcast on: 
WBAI, 26 Oct. 1972.
Item duration: 
1 reel (44 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Keywords: 
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Rainone, Nanette.
Bellow, Bonnie.
Telephone operators -- Personal narratives.
Telecommunication systems.
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Contributor: 
Bonnie Bellow
Role: 
Producer
Contributor: 
Nanette Rainone
Role: 
Producer
Contributor: 
Peter Zanger
Role: 
Engineer
Contributor: 
Louella Smith
Role: 
Interviewee
Genre: 
American Women -- Work and unions
American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1972.
Rights Summary: 
RESTRICTED. Permissions, licensing requests, Curriculum Initiative, Campus Campaign and all other inquiries should be directed to: Mark Torres, Archives Director, 800-735-0230, Mark@PacificaRadioArchives.org
View Folio here (at Archive.org): 
WBAI Folio, October 1972, p. 28
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This recording has been digitally preserved as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project, and is available for research and reference . Please contact the archives via telephone: 818-506-1077 or email:  americanwomen at pacificaradioarchives dot org for information on how to obtain a copy of this program. Thank you.



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