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We explore the myths and unveil the realities of the story of the Nineteenth Amendment in part one of two episodes.
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 24:22
How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?
- Added: Nov 06, 2023
- Length: 20:02
In our annual Fallen Heroes episode, we share words of inspiration from, and about some lesser-known grassroots activists who passed away in 2021.
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Attorney Linda Kremer, a Public Defender in Marin County, California, worked for thirteen months in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, in 1996 and 1997 as Direc...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, was born in 1830. She lived a quiet, non-public life until she was approximately 47 years old and then, for almost...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The life of Clarina Nichols and her work in the early womens rights movement in the United States has been greatly overlooked. As one of the countr...
- Added: Mar 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 11:59
- Purchases: 2
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 53:25
- Purchases: 22
This is the full audio from the 1969 Wellesley College commencement speech delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, the first ever...
Bought by KZYX, WHQR, Wisconsin Public Radio, MPR News Stations, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 12:02
- Purchases: 5
Dr. June Jackson Christmas, a psychiatrist, was the first African-American woman appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department Health and ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2016
- Length: 14:39
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:38
Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:25
She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:23
When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:45
Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:54
While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 03:00
Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:41