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Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program "From the Vault" of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
This week on From The Vault:
As the efforts by women during Second Wave of Feminism began paying dividends, one of the longstanding barriers came crumbling down. On May 18, 1971, The National Press Club, which was founded in 1908, would finally open its doors to women. It seemed fitting that Germaine Greer, the firebrand writer of the bestselling book Female Eunuch (1970) was the first woman to address this distinguished press corps.
Even the normal host, the President of the National Press Club that year, Vernon Louviere, was absent. So was the next in line, the Vice President of the Club. Fortunately the good humored Chairman of the Board of Governors Sam R. Fogg was present to do the honors and had a wonderful sense of humor throughout on this historic occasion.
Greer took the opportunity to implore the Press Club audience to respect their power to report and MAKE news and was quick to point out the inequality of news coverage of women’s issues.
This program is part of our current preservation and access project, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 funded in part by a matching grant from the NHPRC at the NARA called Documenting Democracy, providing access to historical records.
