Audio / Video

Twenty days in Santa Rita

  • 01:15:11

Description

Emily Lewis, public health nurse and wife of Berkeley doctor Reuben Lewis, and Lillian Rubin, research assistant in sociology at the University of California, and the wife of a Berkeley restaurant owner, talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about their jail experiences. Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Rubin had just been released from Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center, where they, and many others, including Joan Baez, had been confined for their war-protest activities at the Oakland Induction Center in December. Emily Lewis served during WWII in the US Army Nurse Corps and later joined the World Health Organization.

Details

Title

Twenty days in Santa Rita

Creator

Thompson, Elsa Knight. interviewer.

Creator

Pacifica Radio Archive.

KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.).

Published

Los Angeles :, Pacifica Radio Archives,, 1968.

Extent

1 online resource.

Repository

Pacifica Radio Archives.

Reproduction Note

Electronic reproduction.

Grant Information

Sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project.

Usage Statement

RESTRICTED.

Tracks

PRA_NHPRC1_BB1473_00_000_00_FULL.mp3 01:15:11

Linked Resources

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