Women’s Studies Professor Bonnie Morris

On Saturday July 25th, 2015 Professor Bonnie Morris, Women’s Studies professor at George Washington University, paid us a visit to research our Women’s History Collection for a new book idea.

After a Day browsing through Pacifica Radio Archives collection, we brought Dr. Morris into our KPFK Studios to recap her day s work, her involvement in The Women s Movement, her interest in Women s Music and her opinion of our NHPRC Women s history grant that helped us digitize and catalog 2000 Women s History programs between 1962-1983.

We will weave in some of the programs we digitized with this NHPRC grant into our conversation. Dr. Bonnie Morris Professor of Women’s Studies at George Washington University
Notes: Credits:
In addition to the interview with Dr. Bonnie Morris we included clips from several of our NHPRC Grant digitized materials

Here is the list of programs used

– Meg Christian singing a song written by Face The Music by Annie Donnerman (4:54) at a benefit concert on June 10 1975 for Inez Garcia who was accused of murdering a man that was trying to rape her.

– Berkeley Women’s Collective performing She Is My Sister live on Pacifica Station KPFA in Berkeley November 17, 1974 (4:33)

– Amparo Ochoa performing El Barz n (The Plough) from the Sisterfire ’84 concert in Baltimore Maryland. (6:36)
And we ended that set of Women’s music clips with

– an acapella version of Summertime which was used as the opening song to KPFA’s Lesbian Express Show in September, 1974 (1:13)

– Selma James (BC2072) on the topic of Wages for Housework from November 27, 1974.

– Adriene Rich from a KPFK program called Women s Words (KZ1246) from April 6, 1983

– Portland based all-female band Witchazel performing their 1975 song Still Ain’t Satisfied on KPFK

– The Rubber Band performing Wild Wimmin’ Don’t Get The Blues performed live on KPFA on November 12 1976

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