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Interviews
President’s Commission on the Status of Women
Dr. Dorothy Height June 1995
Dr. Jeanne Noble June 1995
Dr. Deborah Wolfe August 1995
National Black Feminist Organization
Jane Galvin-Lewis March 1996
Deborah Singletary March 1996
Margaret Sloan October 1995
Combahee River Collective.
Anonymous Member August 1995
Cheryl Clarke August 1995
Gloria “Akasha” Hull October 1995
Margo Okazawa-Rey October 1995
Sharon Page—Ritchie October 1995
Videotapes
Combahee River Collective.
Barbara Smith interview conducted by Susan Goodlwillie 1994.
Demita Frazier interview conducted by Susan Goodwillie 1994.
Manuscript Collections
East, Catherine. The Catherine East Papers, American Women, 1963, 1983, 2003. Schlesinger Library.
President’s Commission on the Status of Women. John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
Murray, Pauli. The Pauli Murray Papers, Schlesinger Library.
Personal Papers
The National Black Feminist Organization Minutes. Margaret Sloan-Hunter.
The Combahee River Collective Retreat Minutes. Gloria Akasha Hull.
Government Documents
U.S. President’s Commission on the Status of Women. American Women: Report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
———. Four Consultations. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Civil and Political Rights. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Education. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Federal Employment. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Home and Community. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Private Employment. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Protective Labor and Legislation. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Report on the Committee on Social Security and Taxes. Washington, DC: GPO, 1963.
Index
A
Abacha, Sani
abortion
adult education
affirmative action
Age of Oprah, The (Peck)
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
affirmative action and
Clinton and
demographics
enrollment
Negro family patterns and
PCSW and
Reagan and
Ain’t I a Woman (hooks)
“Ain’t I a Woman” (Truth)
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Angelou, Maya
anti-Semitism
Associated Negro Press
B
Bane, Mary Jo
Banet Weiser, Sarah
Bennett, Bob
Berke, Richard L.
Berry, Mary Frances
Bethel, Lorraine
Bethune, Mary McLeod
biography, as history
birth control
“Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood, A” (Wallace)
Black Liberation
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Wallace)
Black Power movement
Black Radical Congress
Black Utility Heuristic
Black Women’s Oral History Project
Bobo, Jacqueline
Boxer, Barbara
Bradley, Bill
Brady Bill
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Ronald E.
Brown, Sterling
Brown v. Board of Education
Bryant, DeAunderia
Burns, Joseph Smith
Bush, George W.
Bush, Jeb
C
Cade, Toni
Carmichael, Stokely
Chisholm, Shirley
Civil Rights Bill
Civil Rights Movement
Black feminism and
Clinton and
CRC and
Hansberry, Lorraine and
Height, Dorothy and
NBFO and
NOW and
1968 Presidential election and
2000 Presidential election and
Smith, Barbara and
Thomas-Hill case and
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