Brenda Verner comments on women's rights movement

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Title:
Brenda Verner comments on women's rights movement
Description:
In this clip Melvin Moore chairs a debate on whether or not Third World women should participate in the women's movement. Media specialist and historian Brenda Verner talks about the need to properly include African American women in the women's rights movement. Overall the program consists of a number of magazine-style segments, including a Barbara Barrow interview with Marge Schiller and Ruth Benjamin (both of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women) on the commission's work as it relates to Third World women, two studio performances from the "The Black Nativity" by vocalists from the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, an abbreviated "Open Platform" debate moderated by Melvin Moore on whether or not Third World women should participate in the women's movement (with debaters Brenda Verner (a media analyst) and Michele Wallace (a lecturer at New York University) and panelists Leah Fletcher (reporter for the Boston Herald American) and freelance writer Jan Gadson), a Barbara Barrow interview with Elma Lewis, Director of Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts; the "Say Brother News" with Karen Holmes, Margaret Tarter, Leah Fletcher, Sonny Joe White, Eric Sampedro, and Milly Kiung, and the "Community Calendar." Fletcher's report features an interview with sociologist Joyce Ladner, who recently spoke at Boston University about the Black family; Tarter's report features an interview with Margaret Ashurst, Director of Community Affairs, OXFAM America's Boston (OXFAM is a famine relief organization). Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by Eric Himes.
Producer:
Barrow-Murray, Barbara
Creator:
Moore, Melvin
Director:
Himes, Eric
Host:
Barrow-Murray, Barbara
Contributor:
St. Onge, David
Contributor:
Johnson, Nat
Reporter:
Joe White, Sunny
Contributor:
Wilson, Bob
Contributor:
Smith, Kathy
Contributor:
Lewis, Webster
Contributor:
MacDonald, Greg
Contributor:
Morton, Wil
Reporter:
Sampedro, Eric
Host:
Moore, Melvin
Contributor:
Wareham, Skip
Contributor:
Sullivan, John L.
Reporter:
Tarter, Margaret
Contributor:
Stewart, Aubrey
Contributor:
Mackles, Gene
Contributor:
Horne, Danny
Contributor:
Rivera, George
Contributor:
Correia, Dennis
Contributor:
Koppel, Tiit
Contributor:
Cross, June
Contributor:
Waters, Mitch
Researcher:
Yang, Eileen
Contributor:
MacKnight, John
Reporter:
Holmes, Karen
Contributor:
White, Conrad
Contributor:
Fairweather, Bill
Contributor:
McGonagle, Richard
Contributor:
Mahard, Fran
Contributor:
Clark, Marvin
Contributor:
Tomaselli, Robert
Contributor:
Plausse, John
Contributor:
Coleman, Vernon
Date:
November 18, 1977
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
WGBH Open Vault
Series:
Say Brother
Subjects:
Wallace, Michele
National Center of Afro-American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
Segregation
Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (Roxbury, Mass.)
Black Nativity (Theatrical production)
Governor's Commission on the Status of Women (Massachusetts)
Civil rights
Oxfam America
African American women
Ashurst, Margaret
Schiller, Marge
Verner, Brenda J.
Lewis, Elma
Women's rights
Benjamin, Ruth
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Identifier:
V_B56B1EA399F54B4CBBC3CF2762F47CBD