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Anne Firor Scott, Professor at Duke University, writer, activist and pioneer in the history of women, discusses her work and the importance of the African-American women activists and their part in the expansion of the "Black Middle Class."
Part one. Footage of Clinton College and Friendship College in South Carolina. Part two. Footage of road in South Carolina. At 15:04 footage of South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia. Part three. Footage of South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses the gender wage gaps and her dissertation focused on theory of Human Capital. Her research finds that women were obtaining less wage compensation, and concentrated in lower paying industries.
Gertrude Fraser author of African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogue of Birth, Race, and Memory discusses her ethnographical study on how older African-American women narrate their life course. She underscores the intergenerational relations of the experiences of these women, and their experiences as adolescents in retrospect.
Part one. Footage of Chester High School band and football team, Chester, South Carolina. Part two and three. Principal Jeff Brown gives a tour of Chester High School, Chester, South Carolina. Part four. At 19:20, Mr. Brown attends a Chester Rotary Club meeting. Then more footage at high school. Part five. Footage of students at Chester High School. At 7:20, interview with Principal Jeff Brown. Mr. Brown recalls what schools were like when he began his career in education. Part six. Principal Jeff Brown recounts the early days of his education career in Chester, South Carolina. He describes the separate but equal doctrine and how the community imposed certain strictures on black teachers. He also talks about the changes brought by integration. Part eight. Interview with Principal Jeff Brown of Chester High School continues. At 8:38, footage of high school activities and students. At 14:20 interview with Mr. Brown recommences.
Part one. Journalist John Norton describes the education situation in Clarendon County, South Carolina. At 7:18, footage of Clarendon County, South Carolina, including rural roads, Liberty Hill Church, cotton gin. Part two. Footage of Clarendon County, South Carolina, including cotton picking. Part three. Footage of Clarendon County, South Carolina, including cotton picking, cemetery and church, sunset.
Chinta Gaston, graduate of Virginia Law is discusses her role in the United States Attorney's Office, and her role in Kroll Law Firm with bringing justice in the lawsuits dealing with sex discrimination.
Part one. Students sit on The Lawn at the University of Virginia and discuss Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, James Nabrit, and Samuel Tucker. Each student explains why he/she got involved with the Elwood project. They discuss their own generation participating in the civil rights struggle. Part two. Students discuss differences among generations of black Americans. Part three. Students change location to William Elwood's house. Topics include the importance of education and the difference between overt versus subtle discrimination. Part four. Continuation of conversation in William Elwood's house about the status of black students at the University of Virginia and pressures on black students in 1985.
Recent University of Virginia graduates, Jessie Blundell and Sarah Curtis-Fawley, discuss their long-term project regarding the widespread problem of sexual assault at the University of Virginia and myths surrounding sexual assault.
Gene Brosok, music critic and program host of Listening of Women and Men for WOMR, discusses the exclusionary practices in the hiring of women and racial minorities in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Central Spokesperson for Palestinian people and author of This Side of Peace discusses the moral imperative for obtaining a central and recognized place for Palestinians. She focuses on her commitment to social justice and diplomacy in her home country.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses the program's goals and sexual harassment in the White House.
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, fellow at the Carter Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, discusses her project concerning black on white rape in Virginia from 1900 to 1960s.
Karen Holt, director of the Equal Opportunity Office at the University of Virginia, discusses Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education focusing on peer-to-peer sexual harassment.
Rebecca Young, 1999-2000 Bayly McIntire Graduate Student Fellow, discusses her dissertation that focuses on the relationship of non-conformist communities to art production in San Francisco in 1950's- '60s and her latest curation "African American Graphic Work of Contemporary Women Artists."