WOMEN IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA: FREEDOM OF EDUCATION (RADIO)
Summary
The fifth in this series of public service programs highlighting the contributions of women to American society. The programs combine factual narration and short dramatic scenes. Today's program is a chronological history of the education of women. The introduction examines women's initial exclusion from and gradual entry into the educational system. Highlights include: the non-academic education of girls in the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Abigail Adams's letter to her husband on women's education; Emma Willard's attempt in 1819 to establish a female academy in New York; the acceptance of women at Oberlin college; Mary Lyon's founding in 1837 of Mount Holyoke, originally a teacher's college for poor girls; Catherine Beecher's founding of teachers' colleges and her emphasis on broader curricula; Susan B. Anthony's speech at the 1853 New York State Teachers' Convention to elevate the status of teachers and increase women's rights; the building of women's colleges such as Smith College in 1869, followed by Vassar and Barnard; and the state of women's education in America as of 1936. Eva Hansl interviews Constance Warren, the president of Sarah Lawrence College, about the benefits of higher education for women. No commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC Blue
- DATE: June 16, 1939 1:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 00:30:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R87:0578
- GENRE: Radio - Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Docudrama; Education; Interviews; Women - History; Women in education; Women's rights
- SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio series, 1939-1940
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Federal Theater Radio Division of the W.P.A. … Production Statement, Producer
- Eva Hansl … Created by
- Jane Ashman … Writer
- Leith Stevens … Composer , Music (Misc. Credits), Music Arranger
- Josef Honti … Conductor
- Eva Hansl … Interviewer
- Portia Morrow … Narrator
- Constance Warren … Guest
- Abigail Adams
- Susan B. Antony
- Catherine Beecher
- Mary Lyon
- Emma Willard