Description:
Interiors of the Cambridge City Council chambers during the draft hearing.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
02/22/1971
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Description:
Silent footage of a rent control hearing in Cambridge. Court scenes. Spectators crowded into the balcony.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
12/08/1970
Description:
Pedestrians standing on street corner, walking down sidewalk, and crossing the street in Harvard Square. Young people being interviewed in group around a park bench on the Cambridge Common. Person holding a caterpillar.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
05/1968
Description:
Exteriors of the Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) taken over by members of the Women's Liberation Movement. Banners hanging off the front of the building that read, "Boston Women's Center" and "Liberated Building." There is also feminist graffiti and signs. Women entering and exiting the building.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
03/07/1971
Description:
Women's Liberation Movement takes over Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive), renaming it the "Women's Center." Exteriors of the building, with banners hanging on it. Crowd of children in front of the building. Interiors of the building, with women singing. A woman makes a statement about the women's programs set up and the lack of facilities for them. Crowd of people are gathered of Harvard Square and march through the streets towards the Women's Center. The crowd yells war cries. Harvard University police car outside the building, making an announcement over the megaphone that bans congregations of students that disrupt normal campus activities. Women in the building look down through second floor windows. Reporter standup on the public reaction to these events.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
03/14/1971
Description:
Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) takeover. Exteriors of building with feminist graffiti on walls. Men outside of the building. Women entered building.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
03/08/1971
Description:
Compilation of footage concerning women's liberation. People parachuting. A ceremony honoring servicewomen. Auditorium full of people. Exteriors of Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) taken over by women and renamed the "Boston Women's Center." Crowd of children outside the taken over building. People outside the door to the Massachusetts House of Representatives Gallery. Governor Frank Sargent outside of the State House, with women addressing crowd about women's liberation. Older people eating meals in a cafeteria. Friends of Louise Bryun Walk for Peace gathered at Copley Square and march through downtown Boston. Louis Bruyn is a woman who walked from her home in Newton, Mass. to Washington, D.C. to protest the Vietnam War in 1971. Exteriors of the Boston Public Library. People on benches at the Boston Common. Women, and a few men, at a banquet. Riverside community resident holds a press conference. Dormitory, possibly a women's prison. Press conference in front of "Boston Women's Center." Exteriors of Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Exteriors of Lyons Hall and other campus environs at Boston College. Women march out of "Boston Women's Center" with banners. Women wrapped in blankets guard the door. Closeups on the electric box outside the building. International Women's Day demonstration on Boston Common in front of the State House. Women speaking at an event.
Collection:
WHDH
Date Created:
03/1971
