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![Her Wits About Her: Women’s Self Defense](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/28/1979Call Number: JG/ 006Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
"Her Wits About Her" Dale Groves and Denise Kannin read from their book of stories about "women who resist, successful self defense stories"
![The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/5/1979Call Number: KP 018Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Life of Fannie Lou HamerCollection: Voices from the South
This recording focuses on Fannie Lou Hamer, known as the lady who was "sick and tired of being sick and tired." This is a tribute to her life and work with Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the struggls she engaged in throughout her life.
![Women in Zimbabwe: Interview with Silvia Baraldini](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: KP 019Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Austin Feminist Radio CollectiveCollection: African liberation movements
Silvia Baraldini describes her experience in Zimbabwe and the history of the Independence Movement in Zimbabwe (ex-British colony of Rhodesia), specifically how the movement for women’s rights took place within the struggle against colonialism. Gives history of Lancaster House Conference, description of the British represented by Lord Carrington, the White settlers represented by Ian Smith and his puppet Bishop Muzarewa, and of the Liberation Forces under Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkromo of ZANU and ZAPO. Discusses the first and second elections, the role of South Africa, Muzarewa’s private army, multinational corporations, Henry Kissinger’s “Detente Effort,” and Mozambique’s assistance of the Liberation Forces. Discusses the mobilization and organization of women primarily to liberate the nation and secondarily in the struggle for women’s rights. Gives analysis of patriarchy within the context of colonialism and imperialism. “Liberation through Participation.”
![Walter Rodney: Race & Class in Guyana](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: CD 013Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Walter Rodney speaking in 1979 about race & class in Guyana.
![Walter Rodney: The Jonestown Tragedy, Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/7/1979Call Number: CD 014Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Walter Rodney talks about the Jonestown Tragedy in Guyana.
![Walter Rodney: The Jonestown Tragedy, Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/7/1979Call Number: CD 015Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Walter Rodney talks about the Jonestown Tragedy in Guyana.
![Naomi Nhiwatiwa of the World Health Organization, speaks in solidarity with ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) on women’s contributions to the fight for liberation in Zimbabwe.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Naomi Nhiwatiwa, senior advisor to the United Nations for the World Health Organization’s Africa Region, speaks about women’s contribution to the fight for liberation in Zimbabwe. She notes that equality exists between men and women within ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union), but usually not outside of the organization. She thanks the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU, praising them for their efforts to make the world a better place and for eradicating the symbol of white as oppressors in the black person’s mind.
![Joyce Kangai is interviewed on the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League and its goals for women’s participation in the struggle for liberation in Zimbabwe.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
In an interview, Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League speaks about women’s role in the Zimbabwe liberation struggle and in ZANU women’s league. The women participate fully in the struggle, and raise support for women refugees. The League’s slogan of “Liberation through Participation” is the goal of educating women on politics and the nature of the struggle, recruiting women to participate in the liberation of Zimbabwe, and to work together for equality and raising materials for the women freedom fighters.
![The Black Scholar Interviews: Alfred "Skip" Robinson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Black ScholarYear: 1979Volume Number: March-AprilFormat: ArticleCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Robinson is the leader of the United League of Mississippi, which organized in 15 counties of MS and parts of Alabama and Tennessee to protest racism, police brutality, black land grabs, terrorism by KKK, and to fight for adequate housing, healthy care, jobs, and schools
![Fourth Anniversary of Freedom Is A Constant Struggle](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/21/1979Call Number: FI 234Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Opens with focus on political prisoners and political cases, promotes a program on the Warsaw Ghetto and Tal al Zaatar, covers a demonstration against Senator S.I. Hayakawa and his support for Ian Smith regime, with speech of a demonstrator and in-depth interview with a ZANU representative.