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. Adair, Christia, 1893-1989
2. Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987
3. Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989
4. Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004
5. Chinn, May Edward, 1896-1980
6. Duster, Alfreda, 1904-1983
7. Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 1899-1990
8. Eberhardt, Mae Massie, 1915-
9. Edwards-Madison, Lena Frances
10. George, Zelma, 1903-1994
11. Grant, Frances O. 1895-1982
12. Halyard, Ardie Clark
13. Harrison, Pleasant, 1915-
14. Height, Dorothy I. 1912-2010
15. Hill, May Edwards
16. Holmes, Margaret, 1898-
17. Hunter, Clementine
18. Jones, Lois Mailou
19. Jones, Susie, 1892-
20. Jones, Virginia Lacy, 1912-1984
21. Springer, Maida
22. Kittrell, Flemmie P. 1904-1980
23. Lewis, Catherine Cardozo
24. Moore, Audley, 1898-1997
25. Snowden, Muriel S. 1916-1988
26. Stokes, Olivia Pearl, 1916-
27. Tanneyhill, Ann
28. Thomas, Constance Pitter
29. Thompson, Era Bell
30. Waddles, Charleszetta, 1912-2001
31. Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
32. West, Dorothy, 1907-1998
33. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
34. African American women > History
35. African Americans in medicine
36. African American physicians
37. African American businesspeople
38. African American women artists
39. African American arts
40. African Americans > Civil rights
41. African American women > Political activity
42. African American women > Education
43. African American teachers
44. African American lawyers
45. African American executives
46. African American social workers
47. Women social workers
48. Women educators
49. Women journalists
50. Women lawyers
51. Women librarians
52. Women musicians
53. Women volunteers in social service
54. Businesswomen
55. Women in the civil service
56. Women in community development
57. Women in medicine
58. Women > Political activity
59. Women labor union members
60. United States > History > 20th century

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