Patricia Schroeder (July 30, 1940- ) was a Denver, Colorado lawyer who ran an unconventional campaign for Congress and won. In a talk given in Aspen, Colorado in June 1973, she discusses the manners, customs, and pecking order of the "ego center of America," as a woman in the House Armed Services Committee; how the budget is passed, love of technology, and "expertise." Schroeder also describes her campaign, how the public viewed her husband, reactions of her cohort on her...
Topics: UNITED STATES. CONGRESS -- ANECDOTES, FACETIAE, SATIRE, ETC., Rosenfeld, Tim., Military...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Poet Alta (1942 - ) reads selections of her works at a benefit for the League of Academic Women at UC Berkeley.
Topics: Alta, 1942-, Poetry -- Women authors., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A reading and interview with Chinese-American novelist and poet Diana Chang. Chang first reads from her latest novel, A Perfect Love (Jove Books), speaks with Brown and then reads several of her poems. Produced by Wesley Brown.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Chang, Diana (Diana C.), Brown, Wesley,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A Women's Magazine of the Air, produced by the WBAI Women's Department, featuring: Part one: Hot Flashes, women's news from the Majority Report; Part three: Kate Millett interviewed by Judy Pasternak and Viv Sutherland (recording breaks in mid-interview) about her new book "Sita" (1976, Virago); Part two is missing: "Woman's Place," a story by Irene Yarrow.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Millett, Kate., Women workers., WELFARE...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A "special" Gay Alternatives discussion of New York City's gay civil-rights bill, and its relevance (if any) to the lives of gays. Guests are Kitty Cotter, media coordinator for Lesbian Feminist Liberation; Frances Doughty, board chairperson of the National Gay Task Force; and Arnie Kantrowitz, writer and former vice president of Gay Activists Alliance. Host and producer is Ronald Gold.
Topics: Kantrowitz, Arnie, 1940-, Doughty, Frances., Cotter, Kitty., Gay rights., Gays -- Political...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Tapes selected from a panel on immigrant Jewish women which was part of a conference on Culture and Community among New York Jews which took place January 27-29, 1979, sponsored by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research in cooperation with the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and made possible by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. Two of three segments from this panel are presented here: a talk on immigrant women and consumer protest by Paula Hyman...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Jewish...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Barbara Cady interviews Dian Thomas about her new book "Roughing It Easy" on comfortable camping.
Topics: Thomas, Dian, 1945-, Books -- Reviews., Home economics., American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Media coverage of Iran critiqued by Joan Vogel, graduate student in anthropology at UCLA, and "Sour Apple Tree" host Clare Spark. The two commentators condemn both American media coverage of Iran as well as the absence of a critique from the Left. Phone calls begin around 25 minutes into recording.
Topics: Vogel, Joan., Press and politics., Journalism., Reporters and reporting., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
An interview with songwriter Margie Adam by KPFT's Clara Kern. They discuss changing relations between men and women in society, the performer's relationship to her audience, the characteristics of women's music, and about the Equal Rights Amendment. Contains clips of some of Adam's songs throughout.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Adam, Margie., Women's music, Lesbian...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 1: After surgery. This program focuses on the quality of medical care at New York hospitals, such as Jacobi, Coney Island, and Bellevue, where patients are often not the top priority. Voices heard in this program include health services administrator Bernard Bukoff; Dr. George Bayer, a member of the New York City board of hospitals; interns Mike...
Topics: Health facilities -- New York (City)., Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York, Voluntary...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Attorney Charles E. Sherman, better known as Ed Sherman, author of the book "How to do your own divorce in California" (Occidental, CA: Nolo Press, 1972), talks to Elsa Knight Thompson. Sherman advises not representing yourself in a divorce case, and discusses legal fees, divorce rates, and religious versus legal interpretations of divorce law. Also broadcast on WBAI on 7/28/71.
Topics: Thompson, Elsa Knight, Sherman, Charles Edward, 1938-, Divorce -- United States., Law --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Examination of domestic workers who manage the homes and children of other people. Intro: How does it feel to manage, maintain and otherwise be responsible for the homes and children of other people? A look at domestic workers through their own eyes and the eyes of those who place them in jobs, and of those who are helping them to organize. Produced by Marsha Bartlett.
Topics: Working classes -- United States., Household employees, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Aircheck of September 6, 1982 program of Everywomanspace, hosted by Angela Gilliam. The theme of the evening is Third World women and women's work. Interview with Ona Jirira, economics student from Zimbabwe. Features listener phone calls.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Africa -- Social conditions., Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Part 1: Ralph Nader delivers a speech on Volkswagens; Part 2: Donna Shore of the Committee of Responsibility, an organization which uncovers corporations who betray the public trust, discusses her recent trip to Vietnam. Produced by Margot Adler.
Topics: Nader, Ralph., Consumer protection., VOLKSWAGEN, Children -- Vietnam., American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Viv Sutherland interviews feminist financial consultant Reva Calesky (1939-2012), owner of Feminist Financial Services in New York City. The discussion centers around saving on income taxes and financial planning for single and married women.
Topics: Women -- Finance, Personal, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Dr. Ben Major and Dr. Harold Williams at Pauley Ballroom, U.C. Berkeley, December 3, 1969, debating over the birth control pill. Dr. Major from Planned Parenthood takes issue with Dr. Williams' book "The Pill In New Perspective: Pregnant or Dead." The two men debate over the moral and physical aspects of birth control pills. Dr. Williams was a lawyer at the time of the debate, but had practiced as a doctor previously for five years. Dr. Major was a professor at the University of...
Topics: Williams, Harold, 1921-, Major, Benjamin, Birth control, Oral contraceptives -- Side effects.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Feminist activist Pamela Allen speaks with host Julius Lester about the difficulty in organizing various womens' groups into a united front. She discusses how women are often hesitant to accept leadership roles in social movements because of male chauvinism, why some women won't enter into all-women group dynamics, and the importance of transcending race and class lines in the women's movement.Likely the same recording as BB3788.03.
Topics: Lester, Julius., Allen, Pamela., New York Radical Women, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Investigation of the burnout syndrome caused by overwork, over-involvement, and over-participation. Much of the discussion in this program focuses on burnout as it affects women, minorities and those involved in activist struggles. Participants include Dr. Beverly Potter, author of "Beating job burnout"; Judith Meyer, professor at Pacific Oaks College who facilitates workshops on burnout; Pamela Gruber, Pacific Oaks College; Dr. Steve Tarzinski, member of the New American Movement who...
Topics: Rosenbluth, Helene, Burnout syndrome., Job Satisfaction., Stress., American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A short documentary consisting of interviews with battered women and women involved in providing support services to these women. Guests include the director and some volunteers at WAVES (Women Against Violence Emergency Services) in Berkeley. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / produced by Bradley Cleveland. Recorded: by Philip Maldari, Feb. 1980. Broadcast: KPFA, Feb. 1980. Produced by Bradley Cleveland and engineered by Philip Maldari, KPFA, 1980. Note on label: "The program is enlightening but will...
Topics: Women -- Crimes against., Battered women., Family violence, Wife abuse., Domestic violence,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A forum hosted by the World Affairs Council at the Firemen's Fund Auditorium in San Francisco in 1971 on the subject of changes that have taken place in women's lives in India, Japan, Eastern Europe, Mexico and Sweden. Education, job opportunities, family living situations and legal rights are compared and contrasted. Edith Coliver, Director of the Asia Foundation, introduces the participants. Margaret Cormack speaks about India and Japan. Helga Lohr-Bailey speaks about the socialist countries...
Topics: Women -- Social conditions., World Affairs Council of Northern California, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Viv Sutherland interviews Florence Rush, author of "Sexual abuse of children: the best kept secret." Contains phone calls. Produced by Sutherland.
Topics: Rush, Florence, 1918-2008, Child sexual abuse, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Rabbi Alvin Fine (b. 25 Oct. 1916; d. 19 Jan. 1999), professor of humanities at San Francisco State College referees a 3-way duel between Dr. Don Jackson, director of the Mental Research Institution at Palo Alto, Dr. Albert Long, chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Presbyterian Medial Center, and Dr. Donald Minkler, clinic medical director for the Planned Parenthood League of Alameda County. The panel of doctors discuss the implications of family planning at the...
Topics: Fine, Alvin I., Jackson, Don D. (Don De Avila), 1920-1968, Long, Albert, Minkler, Donald H., Birth...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Alvaro Cardona-Hine introduces poet Rosella Pace, who reads from her own work. Her reading is interspersed with conversation between Pace and the host. Rosella Pace is from Minnesota, studied at University of Minnesota, and has been published in Poetry Review Tampa, Euphoria, and Monument.
Topics: Women writers, Pace, Rosella., Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Velvet Sledgehammer for December 7, 1983, hosted by Judy Pasternak. The program begins with a performance by and interview with comedian Jane Anderson (by Judy Pasternak), and a performance and interview with comedy writers and performers Deah Schwartz and Anne Wilford, by Ash Corea. They discuss their new piece "Leftovers: the ups and downs of a compulsive eater". A cut from "We All Every One of Us," the new album by Sweet Honey in the Rock, separates the interviews....
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anderson, Jane, 1954-, Wilford, Anne, Sweet...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The half-hour serial reading program "Continued tomorrow" featured "Other people's houses" by Lore Segal in December 1972 and January 1973. It was an autobiographical novel, written and read by Lore Segal, about her childhood in Hitler's Vienna, growing up in English foster homes, three years in the Dominican Republic, and her first years as a young woman in New York. The first installment was broadcast on December 14, 1972, and weekdays thereafter until it was complete....
Topics: Segal, Lore Groszmann, Autobiography--Women authors, United States -- History -- 1933-1945, Vienna...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Reading of poetry by and about women, held in WBAI's Studio C--the first live women's poetry event at WBAI. Poets reading are: Daniela Gioseffi (b. 1941), Erica Jong (b. 1942), Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Jane Mayhall (1918-2009), and Robin Morgan (b. 1941). Music by: Roberta Cosi[sp?], Arlene Mendes[sp?], Beechee Forbes[sp?]. Produced by Mimi Anderson and Brett Vuolo.
Topics: Women poets, Poetry -- Women authors., Gioseffi, Daniela., Jong, Erica., Lorde, Audre, Morgan,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
This is the second episode "Dropping Out" in a four part series of lectures by Dr. Carl Faber entitled "Woman as slave." This episode is in two parts. Part one is the lecture portion of the episode, recorded in January 1977. Faber argues that women who have played traditional roles, when they try to change their relationship to male chauvinist society, get some self-respect and enthusiasm at first, but draw rage from men and women. They lose their maternal authority,...
Topics: Faber, Carl., Prejudices and antipathies., Women -- Mental health., Women -- Psychology., Women --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Two women poets read their poetry. First is Linda Pastan (b. 1932) of Potomac Maryland, author of "Aspects of Eve," "A Perfect Circle of Sun," and "The Five Stages of Grief." This is an edited version of a reading she gave at the Brooklyn Museum in February (1982?). We thank Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association for use of their tape. The second reader is Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (b. 1945) who grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in Maine. She is the author of and is...
Topics: Pastan, Linda, 1932-, Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie, Women poets, Poetry -- Women authors., American...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Harold Rosenberg's essay "Pop Culture: Kitsch Criticism" read by Clare Loeb and "Kitsch" by Gilbert Highet read by Ruth Buell. The first reel features Loeb's reading of Rosenberg; the second reel features Buell's reading of Highet. Produced by Clare Loeb and Ruth Buell.
Topics: Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978, Rosenberg, Harold, 1906-1978, Art criticism., Popular culture -- United...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The fifth in a series of five programs produced in 1965 by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This program features interviews with young people in Tuscaloosa, including Ms. Tompkins' cousins. This series was lightly edited and re-broadcast in July and August 1970 (according to folio) for comparison with her new series (upcoming in September 1970, according to folio) entitled "You must go home: 1970." (Archive #BC2793). This recording was previously numbered...
Topics: Tompkins, Marcia., Racism., Racism -- Alabama., Women journalists., Be it ever so humble / produced...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Vocalist-composer Jay Clayton demonstrates diverse musical styles, and talks with Jude Quintiere about her life and music. Clayton was co-founder of the Voice Group in 1974 and has performed with Steve Reich and Kirk Nurock. Music featured in the recording includes a pre-taped performance by the Jankry Ensemble (Jay Clayton, Frank Clayton and Larry Karush) recorded at WBAI, as well as various recordings featuring Jay Clayton by Cecil McBee, Peter Fish, Mark Levin, Kirk Nurock, and others.
Topics: Quintiere, Jude., Clayton, Jay., Jazz music., Women musicians., Specially voiced jazz / Jay...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
WOMEN'S STUDIES : THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN HOLLAND. Produced by WBAI and Kathy Ann Kersey. Recorded on February 7, 1982. - CONTENT: Kathy Ann Kersey interviews Sari van Heemskerck of the National Council of Women in Holland. They discuss the women's movement in Holland and her outlook for work in the UN based on her recent experience. - Broadcast on February 7, 1982.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Women -- Netherlands -- Social conditions
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The San Francisco-based poet Frances Jaffer (1921-1999) reads from her work, talks about her life and discusses feminist poetics with Shelley Messing. Produced by Messing for the Drama & Literature Department of WBAI with technical assistance from Viv Sutherland.
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Jaffer, Frances., Women poets
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Winter, Ella, 1898-1980, Thompson, Elsa...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Talk on the failure of the legal system to keep pace with social change in America by Nancy Reeves, attorney and writer-lecturer on the status of women. Reeves argues that mummified legal systems that preserve antiquated laws distort women's lives and that women's liberation should aim to sweep these laws away, and that the erosion of the legal fiction of "man and wife" as a single entity, population density and the pill have helped to undermine the biological determinism upon which...
Topics: Women -- Legal status, laws, etc., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Feminism
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A free-form tapestry woven from music, poetry, myths, literature, and drama by and about women. Pieces in Part 1 include: "An ancient gesture" by Edna St. Vincent Milay; "Bell pieces" from Grapefruit by Yoko Ono; "Pain for a daughter" by Anne Sexton; "Man woman sketch" by Naomi Pollack; "Stillbirth" from the Diary of Anais Nin, adapted by Naomi Pollack; "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. Songs were "That ain't even my name" by Maxine...
Topics: Pollack, Naomi., Women in literature., Penelopes web / produced by Judy Chaiken and Naomi Pollack.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Women's Coalition for the Third Century (WC3C) is an outgrowth of women's participation in Bicentennial activities. In October 1974, WC3C held a conference in Boston and Nanette Rainone and Brett Harvey interviewed three women attending the conference about women's history, and the rise in women's history research and writings. The interviewees are Linda Grant DePauw, professor of history at George Washington University; Pat King, director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on...
Topics: DePauw, Linda Grant., King, Pat., Women -- History -- United States., American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A special solute to women and the unfinished American Revolution, looking at the Revolutionary period through women's eyes. Hosted and produced by Phyllis Kriegel, including readings by Sammy Krommin[sp?], interview with historian Linda Kerber, a brief phone interview with author Charlotte Bunch about the future for Women's rights post-ERA, and songs of the American Revolutionary period sung and played by Carolyn Moseley. Produced at WFDU for WBAI. Engineered by Tara Kelly and Steve Pepe.
Topics: United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783., Kerber, Linda K., United...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Women office workers, members of the group W.O.W. (Women Office Workers) tell their experiences during a speak out entitled "Women Workers Speak Out" recorded in the fall 1973. From the April 1973 WBAI Folio: "Last fall, women workers gathered together to speak out about their jobs. A packing house worker, a waitress, office workers, household workers, and women in a variety of trades describe their work and the problems they confront each day on the job. Many of these women have...
Topics: Women workers., Labor unions -- Minority membership., Office workers -- Personal narratives.,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Annette Walker talks with writer Kathy Kersey about how women in Algeria have fared since the Algerian Revolution, and about the plight of women in the Islamic world in general. Kersey discusses how the West needs to find a creative approach to understanding the situation of women in the Arab world, and talks about Algerian women's role in the Algerian Revolution. Music in the program by Oum Kalthoum.
Topics: Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962, International Women's Day, 1980, American Women Making...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
A conversation with William Smart, director of the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Arts Colony in Sweetbriar, Virginia, and two veterans of the Center: Edwin "Ed" Honig, poet, and Jean Zaleski, painter. Smart describes the history and role of the Virginia Center Arts Colony, and the two artists describe what it was like to be residents there. Contains music and sketches. Produced for WBAI by Judith Ghinger and David Levine. Alternate title: "Isolation or stimulation: what...
Topics: Smart, William., Artists -- Psychology., Art centers -- Virginia., American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
From the folio: Is it really true that sex roles beginn at a very early age? To find out, Sebern Fisher assembled a group of people aged 5 to 9 to talk the subject over. Adult moderators Ken Washton and Deborah Deutschman posed some questions about boys and girls, and the young people took over from here.
Topics: Child development., Sex role, Gender roles, Fisher, Sebern., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The fifth in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, founders of the National Woman Suffrage Association. With this lecture, Lerner attempts to expose the suffragists as human beings rather than symbols, and to put into context the work that they did and the sacrifices they made for solving women's problems.
Topics: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906, Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902, Suffrage --...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
New York Congresswoman, feminist and Presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005) speaks on discontent among minorities, and notes that women are the key factor in the coalition of the powerless that must form to take power in the United States. This speech, titled "Women in Politics: Why Not?", was given on January 11, 1972 at Mills College in Oakland. Self-contained, no intro or outro.
Topics: Elections -- United States -- 1972., Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, American Women Making History...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Richard Lamparski interviews motion picture star Evelyn Keyes (1916-2008). The star of Gone with the Wind and The Jolson Story tells how Harry Cohn tried to dictate her personal life, what Hollywood was like during the Blacklist, and about some parts she didn't get.
Topics: Keyes, Evelyn, 1916-2008, Actresses -- Personal narratives., Film industry -- Hollywood (Calif.).,...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Sybil Leek, journalist, writer and lecturer, and witch, meets the panel consisting of Geraldine Diepeveen, Michele Greenhill, and Tiger Slavik, housewives and apprentice witches. They discuss the ancient, pre-Christian occult religion of witchcraft, which involves acceptance of a power greater than one's self, and the idea of reincarnation. They discuss ceremonies, why the religion doesn't try to recruit more believers, common ground between witches and scientists, Sybil's book "Diary of a...
Topics: Occult sciences., Witchcraft., Leek, Sybil, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Colin Edwards interviews Fannie Lou Hamer, candidate for Congress and member of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, during Hamer's visit to Berkeley in 1965. Hamer discusses how she got involved in Freedom Democratic Party politics, the planks of the Freedom Democratic Party, and the continuing fight for voting rights and human rights.
Topics: African Americans--Civil rights--History, Hamer, Fannie Lou, Voting--Mississippi., Mississippi...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
OH, TASTE AND SEE / Denise Levertov. - Poet reads selections of her work.- RECORDED: at the Poetry Center. BROADCAST: WBAI, 2 Mar. 1965.
Topics: Poetry., Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997, Women artists, Women poets, American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Mary Lou Williams Trio recorded at the Keystone Korner, with Eddie Marshall on drums, Larry Gales on bass, and Mary Lou Williams on piano. Programs opens with the song "Corny Rhythm" by Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy featuring Mary Lou Williams as pianist and composer. The life and work of African American Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams is briefly introduced, then the performance of the Mary Lou Williams Trio recorded at the Keystone Korner on April 29, 1977. Program produced...
Topics: Gales, Larry, Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981, Marshall, Eddie., Women musicians., Jazz music., Mary...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
