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.

Subject

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

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