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    The 19th Amendment at 100: A Conversation with Judy Perry Martinez (Library of Congress) 19th Amendment Centennial Commemoration Playlist: Video testimonials commemorating the 19th Amendment Centennial at the National Archives. (National Archives YouTube Channel) Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 (National Archives YouTube Channel) Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years (Library of Congress) Music and the Winds of Change: The Women's Movement (Smithsonian Institution) National Archives Comes Alive! Young Learners Program Meet Alice Paul (National Archives YouTube Channel) Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (Library of Congress) Researching Women and Gender at the Library: Exploring the Struggle for the ERA Researching Women and Gender at the Library: Finding Women, Gender, and LGBTQIA+ Perspectives Rosa Parks: The History and the Heart (Library of Congress) Swarthmore College Peace Collection Sound Recordings (National Endowment for the Humanities & Swathmore College) Swarthmore College Peace Collection Visual Recordings (National Endowment for the Humanities & Swathmore College) Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation (Library of Congress) Tell Them We are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (PBS, National Endowment for the Humanities) This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer (Library of Congress) Women’s Liberation Playlist (Smithsonian Institution) Women Suffragists and the Men Who Supported Them: The Suffragents (panel discussion) (National Archives YouTube Channel) Youth in Action: Conversations About Our Future: Native Women Making Change (Smithsonian Institution YouTube channel)

    African American Dollmaking and Puppetry: Renegotiating Identity, Restoring Community (Library of Congress) American Roots: Hairdressers & Beauty Shop Culture in America (Library of Congress) A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances (Library of Congress) Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Oral History (Library of Congress) Bringing in the May (Library of Congress) Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Title IX with Archival Footage of Sporting Legends (National Archives) Carmen Agra Deedy (storytelling) (Library of Congress)
    Conversation with Ann Yao (Library of Congress)
    Ella Jenkins - First Lady of Children's Music - Sound Sessions Radio (Smithsonian Institution) Encuentro en el Smithsonian: Eugenia León y La Marisoul (Smithsonian Institution) Encuentro en el Smithsonian: Susana Baca y Nidia Góngora (Smithsonian Institution) Feminist Community Radio at KOPN: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (Library of Congress and WGBH) A Folklorist's Tale: Stories of Tangible Culture, Intangible Culture, and the Politics of Culture, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Library of Congress) History of Household Technology (Library of Congress) Home Canning: Cultural Narratives, Technological Change & the Status of Traditional Knowledge (Library of Congress) Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller Audio Collection (Library of Congress & WGBH) Jean Ritchie - Sound Sessions Radio (Smithsonian Institution) “Ladies First: Folkways’ Female Artists” - Tapestry of the Times, Episode 29 (Smithsonian Institution) “Miss Mary Mack” Hand Games, 1974 (Smithsonian Institution YouTube channel) “Ola Belle Reed: An Enduring Legacy” - Tapestry of the Times, Episode 27 (Smithsonian Institution) Sidedoor Podcast: Sing a Song of Protest (Smithsonian Institution) Sisterfire SongTalk: Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Martha Gonzalez, and Barbara Dane (Smithsonian Institution) Sports and Women: Telling the Stories of the Quest for Equality (National Archives YouTube channel) Story Circle: The Art of Movement and Coalition Building – Learning from Yuri Kochiyama (Smithsonian Institution) Story Circle: Women to the Rescue! Conserving American Ginseng (Smithsonian Institution) Virtuosic Women Playlist: NEA National Heritage Fellows on Smithsonian Folkways The Will to Adorn: Reflections on African American Identity and the Aesthetics of Dress, Diana Baird N'Diaye (Library of Congress) Woman Talk Show Series: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (Library of Congress and WGBH) Women and Folk Playlist from Smithsonian Folkways (Smithsonian Institution) Women Documenting the World: Women as Folklorists, Ethnomusicologists & Fieldworkers, session one: (Library of Congress) Women Documenting the World: Women as Folklorists, Ethnomusicologists & Fieldworkers, session two: (Library of Congress)

    100 Years of Women Voting (Library of Congress) 40 for 40: Washer Women (National Park Service) #APeoplesJourney: African American Women and the Struggle for Equality (Smithsonian Institution) American Army Women Serving on All Fronts – 1944 (National Archives) American Women and Social Change – Labor (National Archives) American Women and Social Change - Women and the Family, 1975 (National Archives) American Women and Social Change - Women at Work (National Archives) "Code Girls" Reunion (women code breakers of World War II) (Library of Congress) Daisy Turner's Kin: An African-American Family Saga (Library of Congress) Daisy Turner's Kin: An African-American Family Saga (Library of Congress) Decade of Our Destiny: Women -- A New Force for Change (National Archives) Drew Gilpin Faust: Women in Leadership (Library of Congress) Fearless Women Video Series at the 2020 National Book Festival (Library of Congress) Hidden Figures: Discussing the Women of NASA with Margot Lee Shetterly (Library of Congress) Humanities Nebraska, Valuing the Vote - series of recordings exploring women's suffrage as well as civil rights movement (Site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) The Impact of the Women's Suffrage Movement Today (Library of Congress) The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age (National Archives YouTube Channel) Motherhood and the Military Panel Discussion (Library of Congress) Searching for Suffrage at the Library (Library of Congress) Unladylike 2020—Short Film Series (National Endowment for the Humanities & PBS) Women and the Spirit of '76 (National Archives) Women in Defense, 1941 (National Archives) Women In Leadership: Journalism (National Archives) Women in the Persian Gulf War (Library of Congress) Women in World War II: The Spies They Never Saw Coming (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) Women of the Grand Canyon (National Park Service) Women on the Warpath, 1943 (National Archives) The Women's Suffrage Centennial: Impact and Legacy (National Archives YouTube Channel) Women Who Dare (Library of Congress)

    Anuradha Nehru Oral History (Library of Congress) Composer Meredith Monk in concert (Library of Congress) Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music (Library of Congress) Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, American Masters Series (National Endowment for the Humanities, PBS) Esma Redzepova & Folk Masters: Romani (Gypsy) and Macedonian Music (Library of Congress) The Experimentation of Ruth Crawford Seeger (Library of Congress) Flory Jagoda and Friends: The Celebration Concert (Library of Congress) "Freight Train" by Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (Smithsonian YouTube Channel) Harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson in concert (Library of Congress) Interview with composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Library of Congress) An Introduction to the Music of Clara Schumann (Library of Congress) Joy Harjo in Concert (Library of Congress) Kalanidhi Dance: Traditional Kuchipudi from Maryland (Library of Congress) Katherine Dunham Collection (Library of Congress) The Legacy of Ola Belle Reed: Oral History (Library of Congress) The Legendary Ingramettes: African American Gospel Music from Virginia (Library of Congress) The Lili'u Project -- Women's History Month Concert (Smithsonian Learning Lab) Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes, Feeling Heart (PBS, National Endowment for the Humanities) Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in concert (Library of Congress) NOKA: Basque Song & Music from California (Library of Congress) NOKA Oral History (Library of Congress) Open Mic: Interview with Fiona Ritchie (Library of Congress) Oral History: Storyteller Barbara Freeman (Library of Congress) Oral History: Storyteller Connie Regan-Blake (Library of Congress) Pianist Solungga Liu in concert (Library of Congress) Pianist Valerie Tryon in concert (Library of Congress) PIQSIQ: Inuit Style Throat Singing (Library of Congress) Quebe Sisters - Texas Swing Fiddle - Sound Sessions Radio (Smithsonian Institution) The Reign of Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles (Smithsonian YouTube Channel) Sheila Kay Adams: Musician and Storyteller from North Carolina (Library of Congress) Sheila Kay Adams Oral History (Library of Congress) Side by Side: Celebrating American Women’s Voices from Smithsonian Folkways Sidney Robertson Cowell & the WPA California Folk Music Project, 1938-1940 (Library of Congress) Stepping Back in Time: Storytelling with Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman (Library of Congress) Tribute to Mama Afrika: Miriam Makeba (Library of Congress)