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Rosalie Wahl: Minnesota's first female Supreme Court Justice
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
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In 1977, the Women's Movement scored a major victory with Roe v. Wade, but Congress failed to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In Minnesota, a pro-...

Bought by KPVL, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Argentine Firecracker
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Historian Julian Zelizer talks with host Brian Balogh about the sex scandal that brought down Wilbur Mills – one of the most powerful congressman o...

Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, WEZU, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 4
Promo - "Beach Bodies: A History of the American Physique"[rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Strongman Eugene Sandow, 1893
30-second promo for "Beach Bodies: A History of the American Physique" 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date tag.

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
The History of Feminism
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about the history and future of feminism with History Professor, Estelle B. Freedman, author of ""No Turning ...

Bought by KETR-FM, WHFR, WMMT, KRZA, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Filmmaker Emily Haddad on her doc about the first woman MN Supreme Court Justice
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Filmmaker Emily Haddad joined WTIP's Ann Possis during Women's History Month to talk about her latest documentary, "Girl from Birch Creek," the ins...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:59
Margaret Mead
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Lillian Hellman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Emma Goldman
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Sophie Scholl
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Robin Morgan
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Pat Schroeder
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Marie-Jeanne Roland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Margaret Sanger
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Lucy Stone
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
Emmeline Pankhurst
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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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
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
Dora Tamana
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
Shirley Chisholm: The Politics of Principle
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1972, Shirley Chisholm launched a spirited campaign for the Democratic nomination. She was the first woman and first African American to run. De...

Bought by WABE, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 10
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 8
Margaret Chase Smith: Cold Warrior in Pearls
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Gracie Allen: The Joke That Became a Campaign
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 10