Papers, 1970-1999.

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Papers, 1970-1999.

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The collection primarily contains materials related to Hennessee's participation in the National Organization for Women (NOW), especially NOW's 1972 petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny renewal of WABC-TV's license due to alleged discrimination against women in programming and employment. Included are reports on ABC and other television networks; information related to NOW's monitoring study of WABC; and materials concerning the portrayal of women in the media, including issues of the newsletter, MEDIA REPORT TO WOMEN. Other feminist materials include clippings, political buttons, and stickers, and printed material, including issues of the literary magazine APHRA and various women's organizations newsletters. Also includes interview transcripts, other research materials, correspondence about, and a typescript and published copy of Hennessee's biography BETTY FRIEDAN.

2140 items (3.5 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8235697

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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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...

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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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 ...

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....

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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