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Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
- Historical Background
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Accession No. 3084-001: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1980
- Accession No. 3084-013: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977-1979
- Accession No. 3084-014: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1984
- Accession No. 3084-015: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1978
- Accession No. 3084-016: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1978
- Accession No. 3084-017: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1985
- Accession No. 3084-018: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1978
- Accession No. 3084-019: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977
- Accession No. 3084-020: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977-1979
- Names and Subjects
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1985
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Black Women Oral History Project
- Title
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project records
- Dates
- 1976-1985 (inclusive)19761985
- Quantity
- 4 cubic feet (4 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 3084
- Summary
- Interview transcripts of interviews with black women representing many interests and occupations--teachers, athletes, community leaders, artists, etc.--from around the country.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
- Languages
- English
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
Noting that the stories of African-American women were inadequately documented in the Schlesinger Library and at other centers for research, Dr. Letitia Woods Brown, professor of history at George Washington University, recommended that the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College [part of Harvard University] collect the oral memoirs of a selected group of older black women. These women, many already in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, had made substantial contributions to improving the lives of African-Americans and all people, through professional and voluntary activities, in their communities and nationally. With initial funding secured from the Rockefeller Foundation, staff at the Schlesinger Library, most importantly Ruth Hill, guided the Black Women Oral History Project, and from 1976 to 1981, 72 women from all over the United States were interviewed. The interviews discuss family background, marriages, childhood, education and training, significant influences affecting their choice of primary career or activity, professional and voluntary accomplishments, union activities, the ways in which being black and a woman had affected their options and the choices made.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Copies of transcripts of interviews from the Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Research Guide for the Black Women Oral History Project at Radcliffe College
Restrictions on Use
Consult the restrictions governing reproduction and use for each of the accessions listed below.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Organized into 9 accessions.
- Accession No. 3084-001, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1980
- Accession No. 3084-013, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977-1979
- Accession No. 3084-014, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1984
- Accession No. 3084-015, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1978
- Accession No. 3084-016, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1978
- Accession No. 3084-017, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1985
- Accession No. 3084-018, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1978
- Accession No. 3084-019, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977
- Accession No. 3084-020, Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977-1979
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Accession No. 3084-001: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1980Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcripts, 1976-1980.
Transcripts are of 49 interviews with black women representing many interests and occupations--teachers, athletes, community leaders, artists, etc.--from around the country.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1980-01-01
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-013: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977-1979Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcripts, 1977-1979.
Transcripts of interviews with six black women, including Rosa Parks, the woman who began the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1984-08-20
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-014: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1984Return to Top
Scope and Content: Exhibition catalog, covering letter, 1984.
Catalog from "Women of Courage : an exhibition of photographs". This travelling exhibition was based on the Black Women Oral History Project interviews and contains color portraits of the interviewees.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Retained by Radcliffe College and Judith Sedwick, photographer.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1984-12-19
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-015: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1976-1978Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcripts, 1976-1978.
Transcripts of interviews with Esther Scott, a Mississippi singer, composer, and guitar player; and Dr. Ruth Temple, a Los Angeles physician.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1986-11-10
| Description |
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-016: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1978Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcript, 1978.
Transcripts of interview with Audley (Queen Mother) Moore of New York City. She was a member of the Communist Party 1930-1950, and has been a political and civil rights activist all her life.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1987-02-03
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-017: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1985Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcript, 1985.
Transcripts of interview with Etta Moten Barnett, Broadway performer, concert singer and film actress. She appeared in such films as "Gold Diggers of 1933" and "Flying Down to Rio" and in the Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess" in the 1940s.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
| Description |
|---|
Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-018: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1978Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcript, 1978.
Transcript of interview with Era Bell Thompson.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1987-09-01
| Description |
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-019: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcript, 1977.
Transcript of interview with Muriel S. Snowden.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: All rights in the transcript, including copyright and the right to publish, are reserved to Muriel S. Snowden and to the Schlesinger Library.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
| Description |
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Accession No. 3084-020: Black Women Oral History Project records, 1977-1979Return to Top
Scope and Content: Interview transcripts, 1977-1979.
Transcripts of interviews with four women: Kathleen Redding Adams, member of an early prominent black family in Atlanta; Katherine Stewart Flippin, an educator who has worked extensively with atypical children including the brain damaged; Zelda Watson George, a scholar in the field of Negro music, and a sociologist and social worker; and Ellen Swepson Jackson, founder/director of Operation Exodus, an inner city busing program in Boston; she is currently a dean and director of affirmative action at Northeastern University.
Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights retained. Contact repository for details.
No photocopying without permission from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Permission also required to quote from any transcript for publication.
Acquisition Info: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1989-10-17
| Description |
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Black Women Oral History Project records Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library
on the History of Women in America, Black Women Oral History Project
records |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Personal Names
- Adams, Kathleen Redding
- Balanaff, Elizabeth
- Banks, Gay
- Bowens, Felicia
- Chall, Malca
- Cowan, Polly
- Dammond, Ellen Craft
- Danley, Theresa
- De Bow, Peter
- Duster, Alfreda
- Ferebee, Dorothy
- Fisher, Minnie
- Flippin, Katherine Stewart
- Franklin, Lucy
- George, Zelda Watson
- Gilkes, Cheryl
- Greenlee, Marcia
- Grose, William
- Guinier, Genii
- Harrison, Pleasant
- Haynes, Maxine Pitter
- Hill, Ruth
- Jackson, Ellen Swepson
- King, Marjorie Pitter
- Landes, Bertha Knight, 1868-1943
- Lindsay, Inabel
- Long, Jefferson F
- Moore, Audley local
- Mottl, Tahi L
- Parks, Rosa
- Pitter, Edward A. (Edward Alexander), 1892-1976
- Pitter, Margery Marian Allen
- Roberts, Eleanor
- Robinson, Dorothy R
- Rothschild, Maurine
- Scott, Esther Mae
- Snowden, Muriel Sutherland, 1916-
- Snowden, Otto Phillip
- Tate, Merze
- Temple, Ruth Janetta
- Thompson, A. Lillian
- Watson, Sandra
- Williams, Addie
Corporate Names
- Freedom House (Boston, Mass.)
- Garfield High School (Seattle, Wash.)
- National Council of Negro Women
- Radcliffe College
- Radcliffe College. Schlesinger Library
- Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. Center for Racial Justice
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Barnett, Etta Moten, 1902- (creator)
- Thomson, Era Bell (creator)
Corporate Names
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Black Women Oral History Project (creator)
