Papers, 1970-1999.

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Papers, 1970-1999.

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The collection includes materials related to Hennessee's writing career and her connection to the National Organization for Women, as well as information on NOW's WABC monitoring study. There are analyses, petitions, and other materials related to ABC and other television networks; arguments for denial of FCC licensing; a document on the legal rights of political candidates; an article on an FCC project from HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL; an assessment of ABC's Equal Employment Opportunity program; some feminist printed materials; guides to the FCC & citizen action; reports; an opinion poll; a file on the monitoring project; and a manuscript copy of Friedan's biography, including letters of agreement and transcripts of phone interviews. Also included is some general correspondence, clippings, reviews, articles by Friedan, a copy of the Friedan biography, assorted political buttons and stickers, materials on Kathie Sarachild, rape, and other related items. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7563461

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Sarachild, Kathie, 1943-

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Kathie Sarachild, born Kathie Amatniek in 1943, is an American writer and radical feminist. In 1968, she took the last name "Sarachild" after her mother Sara, coined the phrase "Sisterhood is Powerful" in a flier she wrote for the keynote speech she gave for New York Radical Women's first public action at the convocation of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade, was one of four women who held the Women's Liberation banner at the Miss America protest, and had her paper "A Program for Radical Feminist Cons...

Friedan, Betty, 1921-2006

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Betty Friedan was born Bettye Goldstein on February 4, 1921, in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Harry and Miriam (Horwitz) Goldstein. She attended Peoria public schools and graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1942. She continued her studies as a University fellow in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley (1943). In June 1947 she married Carl Friedan, an advertising executive; they had three children (Daniel, Jonathan, and Emily) and were divorced in May 1969. Fried...

Hennessee, Judith Adler

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Biographer of feminist Betty Friedan and member of the National Organization for Women. From the description of Papers, 1970-1999. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46344993 From the description of Papers, 1970-1999. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 79717196 ...

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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American broadcasting company

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In 1972 television reporter and talk show host Geraldo Rivera, then a budding journalist working for WABC-New York's Eyewitness News, conducted a series of investigations at the Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded, on Staten Island. His work resulted in a televised documentary entitled "Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace" which exposed the deplorable conditions and the rampant abuse and neglect of the residents. The report won a Peabody Award and led to changes in state law and ...

United States. Federal Communications Commission

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National Organization for Women

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in Washington D.C. in 1966, and incorporated in 1967. The organization was formed to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of society, assuming all privileges and responsibilities in fully equal partnership with men. Local chapters were formed throughout the country and task forces were set up to deal with problems of women in areas such as employment, education, religion, poverty, law, politics, and image in the media....