HUD

Description: Interview with man on the urgency of addressing housing issues. He explains what makes this federal housing program different from the previous programs, which he thinks is the incorporation of the private sector in the last phases. Silent footage of building models.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970

HUD

Description: Silent footage of a hearing about new federal housing program.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Police cars sit outside of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. Inside, a man sits in the Purchasing Agent booth behind a protective window. Another man sits on a bench. Another man is handcuffed and led away by police. He keeps his head down, hiding his face from the cameras.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Man addresses Massachusetts state government arguing against the Racial Imbalance Law. He notes that it will be impossible to adhere to that law without compulsory busing, and therefore the law should be amended or abolished.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Ms. Freeman speaking at Heinz Civic Auditorium at a lecture called "Feminism- Past, Present, and Future." She discusses the inherent sexist thought in our society. Reporter standup.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/28/1970
Description: Carol Channing on stage receiving the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year award. She addresses the crowd and does several humorous bits.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1971
Description: Women in Harvard building (888 Memorial Drive) that they took over and renamed the "Boston Women's Center." Men outside the building trying to talk to the women and get in the building. Huge crowd of students outside the building offer support. Harvard Square environs. Rally at Holyoke Center and Harvard Yard. Group of students criticize the women's building takeover. Harvard police break up a rally outside the taken over building and make announcements over megaphone. Harvard administration official leaves papers at the building. Riverside resident holds press conference about her connection to the takeover and her complaints against the city, especially police violence. People getting food from a lunch truck. Several takes of reporter standup. Women go in and out of building. loading things into vans. Two women kiss in front of building. Mailman tries to deliver mail, women refuse it, and discuss it with him. Outtake of reporter standup. Friends of Louise Bruyn Walk for Peace on the Cambridge Common and Beacon Hill. Louis Bruyn is a woman who walked from her home in Newton, Mass. to Washington, D.C. to protest the Vietnam War in 1971. Priest prays with the crowd. Massachusetts legislators address the crowd in support of their cause.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 1971
Description: The Women's Liberation Movement is demonstrating to have the celebration of George Washington's birthday to a celebration of Susan B. Anthony's Birthday. Footage of movement members talking to crowds of people and getting people to sign petitions. Images of Susan B. Anthony.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 02/15/1971
Description: Interview with a member of the Black Students Federation on the interactions between the Federation and the Boston School system.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 02/22/1971
Description: Interiors of the Cambridge City Council chambers during the draft hearing.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 02/22/1971