Research Catalog

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Description

1. 5 linear feet

Summary

1. 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

1. Duster, Alfreda, 1904-1983
2. Waddles, Charleszetta, 1912-2001
3. Chinn, May Edward, 1896-1980
4. Jones, Susie, 1892-
5. Women librarians
6. Springer, Maida
7. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
8. African American businesspeople
9. Thomas, Constance Pitter
10. Women musicians
11. Stokes, Olivia Pearl, 1916-
12. Moore, Audley, 1898-1997
13. African American executives
14. Women lawyers
15. Businesswomen
16. Lewis, Catherine Cardozo
17. Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
18. Height, Dorothy I (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
19. Women in the civil service
20. Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990
21. Hunter, Clementine
22. African American arts
23. Adair, Christia, 1893-1989
24. George, Zelma, 1903-1994
25. Kittrell, Flemmie P (Flemmie Pansy), 1904-1980
26. African American physicians
27. Women journalists
28. Women volunteers in social service
29. Holmes, Margaret, 1898-
30. Hill, May Edwards
31. Women > Political activity
32. Jones, Lois Mailou
33. Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004
34. African American women > Political activity
35. Harrison, Pleasant, 1915-
36. United States > History > 20th century
37. Women in community development
38. Oral histories
39. Snowden, Muriel S (Muriel Sutherland), 1916-
40. African American women artists
41. Grant, Frances O (Frances Olivia), 1895-1982
42. Eberhardt, Mae Massie, 1915-
43. Women social workers
44. Thompson, Era Bell
45. African Americans in medicine
46. Tanneyhill, Ann
47. African American social workers
48. African American lawyers
49. African American women > History
50. West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
51. Women labor union members
52. Jones, Virginia Lacy, 1912-1984
53. Women educators
54. Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987
55. Edwards-Madison, Lena Frances
56. African American teachers
57. Halyard, Ardie Clark
58. African American women > Education
59. Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989
60. African Americans > Civil rights
61. Women in medicine

Genre/Form

1. Oral histories.

Call number

1. Sc MG 45

Note

1. Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.

Reproduction (note)

1. Transcripts.

Original location (note)

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

Terms of use (note)

1. Publication requires permission of

Source (note)

1. Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library

Author

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

Title

1. Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, 1976-1981.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Original location

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

Terms of use

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

Reproduction

1. Transcripts.

Source

1. 1.1\a Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library Purchase Transcripts

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Research call number

1. Sc MG 45