Archival video footage and slideshows of historical photographs and documents related to women activists in a variety of causes from the early 20th century to the present.
A video produced by Cai Sherley & Sarah Arnold for Otelia Cromwell Day. Part of the Weaving Voices Intergenerational Archives Project.
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This video shows scenes from the women’s march on Washington, DC in 2004, from footage for the documentary “Listen Up! New Voices for Reproductive Justice,” by N’Dieye Gray Danavall. Part of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Records.
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Students of color and the fight for institutional change:
Slideshow from an Otelia Cromwell Day workshop, Fall 2016, led by Cai Sherley & Sarah Arnold.
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Slideshow featuring historical photographs and documents from the Sophia Smith Collection and College Archives.
Women’s Strike, New York City, 26 August 1970. Photo by Diana Davies
Selections of 16mm film footage shot by Noel Phyllis Birkby (1932-94), architect, filmmaker, lesbian activist, feminist, and teacher. Her papers provide significant documentation of the women’s movement, gay and lesbian activism, and lesbian culture in New York City, circa 1970s to 1990s.
This clip depicts scenes from a women’s liberation march in New York City, 1970.
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View more video from the Phyllis Birkby Papers.