- Creator
- Black Women Oral History Project
- Call number
- Sc MG 45
- Physical description
- 5 linear feet
- Preferred Citation
- Black Women Oral History Project transcripts, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Some collections held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. To request access to materials in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, please visit: http://archives.nypl.org/scm/request_access Request access to this collection.
Transcripts from the Schlesinger Library's oral history project which documented the contributions of black women 70 years or older to American life. Interviews document the lives, professional careers, and voluntary activities of women nationwide and focus on their contributions in a wide variety of fields including medicine, law, business, the arts, social work, education, politics, and civil rights. Interviews include Christia Adair, Frances Albrier, Sadie Alexander, Elizabeth Cardozo Barker, Etta Moten Barnett, May Edward Chinn, Alfreda Duster, Mae Eberhardt, Lena Edwards, Zelma George, Frances Grant, Ardie Halyard, Pleasant Harrison, Dorothy Height, Margaret Cardozo Holmes, Lois Mailou Jones, Virginia Jones, Maida Kemp, Catherine Cardozo Lewis, Audley Moore, Muriel Snowden, Olivia Stokes, Ann Tanneyhill, Constance Thomas, Era Bell Thompson, Charleszett Waddles, Dorothy West and Deborah Wofe.
Key terms
Names
- Black Women Oral History Project
- Adair, Christia, 1893-
- Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987
- Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989
- Barnett, Etta Moten, 1901-2004
- Chinn, May Edward, 1896-1980
- Duster, Alfreda, 1904-
- Eberhardt, Mae Massie, 1915-
- Edwards-Madison, Lena Frances
- George, Zelma Watson, 1903-
- Grant, Frances O. (Frances Olivia), 1895-
- Halyard, Ardie Clark
- Harrison, Pleasant, 1915-
- Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
- Hill, May Edwards
- Holmes, Margaret, 1898-
- Hunter, Clementine
- Jones, Lois Mailou
- Jones, Susie, 1892-
- Jones, Virginia Lacy, 1912-1984
- Kemp, Maida Springer
- Kittrell, Flemmie P. (Flemmie Pansy), 1904-1980
- Lewis, Catherine Cardozo
- Moore, Audley, 1898-
- Snowden, Muriel S. (Muriel Sutherland), 1916-
- Stokes, Olivia Pearl, 1916-
- Tanneyhill, Ann
- Thomas, Constance, 1917-
- Thompson, Era Bell
- Waddles, Charleszetta, 1912-
- Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998
- West, Dorothy, 1909-
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Subjects
- African American arts
- African American executives
- African American lawyers
- African American physicians
- African American social workers
- African American teachers
- African American women -- Education
- African American women -- History
- African American women -- Political activity
- African American women artists
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans in business
- African Americans in medicine
- Businesswomen
- Women -- Political activity
- Women educators
- Women in community development
- Women in medicine
- Women in the civil service
- Women journalists
- Women labor union members
- Women lawyers
- Women librarians
- Women musicians
- Women social workers
- Women volunteers in social service
Places
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor
Access to materials
Some collections held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. To request access to materials in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, please visit: http://archives.nypl.org/scm/request_access Request access to this collection.Conditions Governing Use
Publication requires permission of interviewee and Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College
Location of originals
Originals at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Cambridge, Mass