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    Women in the news. [Vol. 1, no. 42?]
    Variant title: Women in the news | Inventory title: Women In the news II | Inventory title: Women in the news with Betty Gray. November 1950     Weekly television newsreel featuring women. Depicts the activities of businesswomen, housewives, factory workers, artists, philanthropists, athletes, celebrities and ordinary women demonstrating their interests and accomplishments in all walks of life. Highlights of this issue include segments about: Anna Naegel and other passengers arriving about the Queen Mary (Personalities in the news); table tennis champion, Sally Green; national amateur swimming champs, Jackie LaVine and Maureen...
    • Contributor: Gray, Betty - United Artists Television (Firm) - All American News, Inc - Cumming, Adelaide Hawley
    • Date: 1950
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    San Francisco's future By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised with great reluctance on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism and anti-preparedness feeling remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the International Workers of the Worlds ("the Wobblies"), but also among responsible labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism...
    • Contributor: Rodiester, Claire - Hearst, Phoebe Apperson - Afi/Post (George) Collection (Library of Congress) - Rolph, James
    • Date: 1916
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    Thomas Walter Gaither oral history interview conducted by Jos... Thomas Gaither recalls growing up in Great Falls, South Carolina, attending Claflin College, and leading the college's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter. He remembers the student sit-ins in Orangeburg, South Carolina, joining the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and being arrested for protesting in Hollywood, Florida. He discusses organizing the Freedom Rides, his belief in nonviolence, and earning his...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Gaither, Thomas Walter
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Lawrence of Arabia The experiences of T.E. Lawrence, a young British officer, who helped lead the revolt of Arab tribes against the Turks during World War I.
    • Contributor: Spiegel, Sam - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Bolt, Robert - Sharif, Omar - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - O'Toole, Peter - Coca-Cola Collection (Library of Congress) - Lean, David
    • Date: 1983
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    Ninotchka A romantic comedy in which Ninotchka, a humorless, dedicated Soviet envoy, and Leon, a gigolo, are transformed when they fall in love in Paris.
    • Contributor: Brackett, Charles - Lubitsch, Ernst - Reisch, Walter - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglas, Melvyn - Garbo, Greta - Rca Corporation - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lugosi, Bela - Loew's Incorporated ... Brackett, Charles - Lubitsch, Ernst - Reisch, Walter - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Douglas, Melvyn - Garbo, Greta - Rca Corporation - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Lugosi, Bela - Loew's Incorporated - Wilder, Billy - Gibbons, Cedric - Turner Entertainment Co. Collection (Library of Congress) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Rumann, Sig - Lengyel, Menyhért - Daniels, William
    • Date: 1981
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    Peggy Jean Connor oral history interview conducted by Emilye ... Peggy Jean Connor discusses her role in the Civil Rights Movement in southern Mississippi. She focuses particularly on voter registration, Freedom Day, being a Democratic National Convention delegate, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), her arrest, organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), and the "Connor vs. Johnson" lawsuit.
    • Contributor: Connor, Peggy Jean - Bishop, John Melville - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Crosby, Emilye
    • Date: 2015-01-01
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    Migration, Asylum & the Role of the State: Defining Boundarie... Three fellows at the Library's John W. Kluge Center discussed the role of the state in establishing geographic, technological and bureaucratic controls over the flow of peoples, cultures and beliefs across borders.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 2015
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    Classified as White: Historical Insights into the Racial Clas... Randa A. Kayyali from the Elliott School for International Affairs at George Washington University spoke about the intersections of religion and race for immigrants in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century.
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
    • Date: 2015
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    And so they live Film depicts white rural poverty in Kentucky and the quality of children's education.
    • Contributor: University of Kentucky - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - New York University. Film Library - Roffman, Julian
    • Date: 1940
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    The boatmen's dance videorecording | Copyright 1950 by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Copyright renewed. Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Sole licensee. (Copyright Notice). Videorecording (Form).
    • Contributor: Hampson, Thomas - Rieger, Wolfram - Copland, Aaron
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    Joseph Echols Lowery oral history interview conducted by Jose... Joseph Lowery recalls his position as pastor at the Warren Street Church in Mobile, Alabama, in the 1950s. He remembers joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the differences in race relations between Mobile and other southern cities, and helping to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He reflects on the effectiveness of nonviolence, the libel suit against him,...
    • Contributor: Mosnier, Joseph - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Lowery, Joseph E.
    • Date: 2011-01-01
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    Women in the news. Vol. 1, no. 34
    Variant title: Women in the news | Inventory title: Women in the news with Adelaide Hawley     Weekly television newsreel featuring women. Depicts the activities of businesswomen, housewives, factory workers, artists, philanthropists, athletes, celebrities and ordinary women demonstrating their interests and accomplishments in all walks of life. Highlights of this issue include segments about: Missouri women sewing a U.N. flag from a kit created by the National Committee on Boys and Girls Work (later, National 4-H), one of thousands of such...
    • Contributor: United Artists Television (Firm) - All American News, Inc - Cumming, Adelaide Hawley
    • Date: 1950
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    Maria Varela oral history interview conducted by David P. Cli... Activist and MacArthur fellow, Maria Varela, recalls her role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), discussing her work in organizing adult literacy programs in Mississippi and her role as one of SNCC's only female photographers. Offering a Mexican American perspective of the Civil Rights Movement, she identifies how SNCC embraced multiculturalism, extending its activism to include the Chicano Movement. She reflects on her...
    • Contributor: Varela, Maria - Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Cline, David P. - Bishop, John Melville
    • Date: 2016-01-01