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Oral histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:

Additional papers of Florence Luscomb, 1888-1988

Collection Identifier: MC 625: T-177
Overview:

Additional papers including photographs, correspondence, statements, flyers, datebooks, etc., of social and political activist Florence Luscomb.

Additional papers of Mildred Robbins Leet, 1928-2005

Collection Identifier: 2002-M114--2002-M162
Overview:

Papers of Mildred Robbins Leet, social activist and cofounder of Trickle Up, a New York-based international non-governmental organization dedicated to alleviating poverty.

Alice Kimball Smith oral history transcript, 1987

Collection Identifier: RA.A/S642
Overview:

Oral history interview with Alice Kimball Smith, Director of the Radcliffe Seminars, Assistant to the Dean of the Bunting Institute, and Dean of the Bunting Institute.

Oral history transcripts of the American Bar Association Women Trailblazers Project, 1998-2019

Collection Identifier: MC 1204
Overview:

Oral history transcripts, legal agreements, and biographical materials of the interviewees of the Women Trailblazers in the Law Project.

Audio collection of June Jordan, 1970-2000

Collection Identifier: T-331; Phon-38; CD-13
Overview:

The audio collection of June Jordan, poet, author, activist, and professor.

Audiotape collection of Marguerite Rawalt, 1953-1979

Collection Identifier: T-310
Overview:

Speeches by and interviews with lawyer and feminist Marguerite Rawalt on a variety of topics, including women and the law, women and business, women's rights, and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

Audiotape collection of Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, 1987-2008 (inclusive), 1987-1988 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: T-339
Overview:

Audiotape recordings of speaking engagements by and interviews with Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, pioneer in social work in Iran.

Papers of Rosalyn Baxandall, 1933-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 887: T-538: DVD-134
Overview:

Correspondence, teaching papers, writings, photographs, etc., of feminist historian Rosalyn Baxandall.

Interviews of the Black Women Oral History Project, 1976-1981

Collection Identifier: OH-31: T-32
Overview:

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of 72 oral histories.

Records of the Boston Women's Fund, 1966-2014

Collection Identifier: MC 919: T-540: DVD-135: Vt-305
Overview:

Reports, meeting minutes, incorporation papers, by-laws, correspondence, memos, grant applications, publications, financial records, photographs, video and audio recordings, press releases, and financial records of the Boston Women's Fund. Grant applications include pamphlets, brochures, flyers, and other publications from Boston-based grassroots community organizations for women.

Papers of Elisabeth Burger, 1880-2013 (inclusive), 1940-2000 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 868: T-218: CD-83
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs, audiocassettes, compact disc of economist Elisabeth Burger, trade unionist and government official Frieda S. Miller, and labor organizer Pauline Newman.

Cambodian-American Women and Youth Oral History Projects Collection, 1969-2001 (inclusive), 1985-2001 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 814: T-209: Vt-159
Overview:

Administrative records, draft transcripts, audiotapes, videotapes, and bound interviews related to the Cambodian-American Women and Youth Oral History Projects. Also includes files and interview transcripts regarding Cambodian puppetry.

Records of Cambridge Homes, 1854-2004 (inclusive), 1900-1998 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 872: T-295
Overview:

Records of the Cambridge Homes, a nonprofit home for elderly people, include board of directors minutes and reports; by-laws, histories, and brochures; files on residents including birth and citizenship documents and cemetery deeds; and oral histories of residents.

Papers of Eleanor Skelton Cash, 1940-2010

Collection Identifier: MC 716: T-214
Overview:

Journals, correspondence, audiotapes, writings, etc., of Eleanor Skelton Cash, a poet who spent much of her life living in poverty.

Kathy Davis oral history interviews, 1998-2005

Collection Identifier: MC 902: T-330
Overview:

Oral histories with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective founders, leaders, and staff conducted by scholar and feminist Kathy Davis.

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, 1865-1998 (inclusive), 1905-1975 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 476
Overview:

Papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois, African American writer, playwright, composer, biographer, teacher, civil rights and left-wing activist.

Papers of Katherine Pollak Ellickson, ca.1830-2019 (inclusive), 1930-1996 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1140: Phon-79
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, writings, and photographs of Katherine Pollak Ellickson, labor economist, assistant director of the AFL-CIO's Social Security department, and executive secretary of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Correspondence of members of Ellickson's extended family, including her husband, parents, and sister is also included in the collection, along with genealogical material such as family trees.

Family Planning Oral History Project Interviews, 1973-1977

Collection Identifier: OH-1: T-25: M-138: A1-3
Overview:

Tapes and transcripts of 24 oral histories of the Family Planning Oral History Project, an oral history project of the Schlesinger Library, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Papers of Donna M. Finn, 1971-2014

Collection Identifier: MC 882: Vt-280
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, notes, projects, and master's thesis of Donna Finn, Boston-based activist and co-founder of the Dorchester Women's Committee.

Audio collection of Betty Friedan, 1963-2007

Collection Identifier: T-97: T-125: Phon-7
Overview:

Audio collection of Betty Friedan, feminist, activist, teacher, and author includes radio broadcasts, speeches, etc.

Records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project, 1945-2015 (inclusive), 1997-2002 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: SC 185: RA.T-128
Overview:

Audiotapes of interviews, interview transcripts and summaries, donor agreements, meeting minutes, project notes, and electronic records of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Oral History Project.

History of Working Class Women student papers, 1976

Collection Identifier: MC 441
Overview:

Summaries of interviews with Boston-area working class women compiled by University of Massachusetts Boston students of Linda Gordon, historian.

Papers of Frances Humphrey Howard, 1923-2003 (inclusive), 1961-2002 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 953: DVD-144: MP-82: T-320: Vt-313
Overview:

Correspondence, oral history transcripts, audiovisual material, photographs, and scrapbooks of Frances Humphrey Howard, sociologist, civil servant, and United States Foreign Service Officer.

Interviews by Lisa Krissoff Boehm, 2000-2007

Collection Identifier: MC 729: CD-67
Overview:

Collection consists of transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with African American women carried out by Boehm in preparation for her book, Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration.

Interviews by Suzanne Snider, 2010-2011

Collection Identifier: A/S672: DVD-86
Overview:

Audio interviews by Suzanne Snider with founders and heads of radical feminist presses and print shops.