Research Catalog

Title

Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, 1976-1981.

Author

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Black Women Oral History Project.

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Details

Description

5 linear feet

Summary

Transcripts from the Schlesinger Library's oral history project which documented the contributions of black women 70 years or older to American life. Interviews document the lives, professional careers, and voluntary activities of women nationwide and focus on their contributions in a wide variety of fields including medicine, law, business, the arts, social work, education, politics, and civil rights. Interviews include Christia Adair, Frances Albrier, Sadie Alexander, Elizabeth Cardozo Barker, Etta Moten Barnett, May Edward Chinn, Alfreda Duster, Mae Eberhardt, Lena Edwards, Zelma George, Frances Grant, Ardie Halyard, Pleasant Harrison, Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Dorothy Height, Margaret Cardozo Holmes, Lois Mailou Jones, Virginia Jones, Maida Kemp, Catherine Cardozo Lewis, Audley Moore, Muriel Snowden, Olivia Stokes, Ann Tanneyhill, Constance Thomas, Era Bell Thompson, Charleszett Waddles, Dorothy West and Deborah Wofe.

Subjects

• Snowden, Muriel S (Muriel Sutherland), 1916-1988
• Lewis, Catherine Cardozo
• African Americans in medicine
• African American lawyers
• African American women > Education
• Edwards-Madison, Lena Frances
• Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989
• Women musicians
• Thompson, Era Bell
• Chinn, May Edward, 1896-1980
• Jones, Susie, 1892-
• Holmes, Margaret, 1898-
• Jones, Lois Mailou
• Waddles, Charleszetta, 1912-2001
• Women in community development
• Grant, Frances O (Frances Olivia), 1895-1982
• African American arts
• African American social workers
• Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004
• Women lawyers
• African American women > History
• Women > Political activity
• Duster, Alfreda, 1904-1983
• Women in the civil service
• Halyard, Ardie Clark
• Springer, Maida
• Height, Dorothy I (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Women volunteers in social service
• Hill, May Edwards
• United States > History > 20th century
• Women librarians
• Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
• Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
• Kittrell, Flemmie P (Flemmie Pansy), 1904-1980
• Adair, Christia, 1893-1989
• Women in medicine
• African American businesspeople
• African American teachers
• African American women > Political activity
• Eberhardt, Mae Massie, 1915-
• Stokes, Olivia Pearl, 1916-
• African American executives
• Businesswomen
• Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990
• Harrison, Pleasant, 1915-
• Hunter, Clementine
• George, Zelma, 1903-1994
• Tanneyhill, Ann
• Jones, Virginia Lacy, 1912-1984
• Thomas, Constance Pitter
• Oral histories
• West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
• African American physicians
• Women labor union members
• African American women artists
• Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987
• Women educators
• Moore, Audley, 1898-1997
• Women social workers
• Women journalists

Genre/Form

Oral histories.

Note

• Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.

Reproduction (note)

• Transcripts.

Original Location (note)

• Originals at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

Terms of Use (note)

• Publication requires permission of

Source (note)

• Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library

Call Number

Sc MG 45

OCLC

122465931

Author

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Black Women Oral History Project.

Title

Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, 1976-1981.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Original Location

Originals at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Cambridge, Mass.

Terms Of Use

Publication requires permission of interviewee and Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College.

Reproduction

Transcripts.

Source

1.1\a Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library Purchase Transcripts

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Finding Aid

Research Call Number

Sc MG 45