Carolyn McDonald Women's Center Oral History Video
Abstract/Description: | See the transcript for this interview here. |
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Subject(s): | Upper Peninsula (Mich.) Oral histories (document genres). Streaming video. Consciousness-raising groups. Women's Center (Marquette, Mich.),, subject Feminism. Marquette (Mich.). |
Date Created: | 2014-03-10 |
Title: | Carolyn McDonald Women's Center Oral History Video. | |
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Name(s): |
McDonald, Carolyn, Interviewee Ryan, Jane, Interviewer Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives, contributor |
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Date Created: | 2014-03-10 | |
Physical Form: | mp4 | |
Extent: | 1 item | |
Language: | English | |
Abstract/Description: | See the transcript for this interview here. | |
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Carolyn came to Marquette, Michigan in the early 1960s as a school teacher. She was a part of the early consciousness-raising groups and worked at The Women's Center as a volunteer teaching goal setting and leading other workshop groups. Recorded at Jane Ryan's home in Marquette, Michigan. She discusses her works to protect women’s rights, the origin of the Marquette Women’s Center, the struggle against wearing mini-skirts as a waitress at Northland Hotel, what led her to consciousness-raising groups, a film project to argue women’s educational rights, a cleaner woman’s story, her involvement in and vision for the Women’s Center, a gender issue she faced in Washington D.C., passing petitions to allow abortion, personal talents, and training for managing the Women’s Center. |
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Subject(s): |
Upper Peninsula (Mich.) Oral histories (document genres). Streaming video. Consciousness-raising groups. Women's Center (Marquette, Mich.),, subject Feminism. Marquette (Mich.). |
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Held by: | Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives | |
Restrictions on Access: | In copyright (http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/) | |
Is Part Of: | MSS-302, Women's Center Oral History Collection. | |
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