Opening the Way -- The Women's eNews Women's History Walk

Opening the Way -- The Women's eNews Women's History Walk

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Opening the Way -- The Women's eNews Women's History Walk episodes

  • Stop 20--Grace Glueck
    Grace Glueck is a former art news editor of the New York Times, and the author of "New York: The Painted City" and "Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present." She reads here a quote from Louise Nevelson, a sculptor whose works are now being restored to create Louise Nevelson Plaza in downtown Manhattan. Nevelson was born in Russia in 1899, but came to New York in 1920, and fell in love with the city.
    1 min
  • Stop 18--Anna Quindlen
    Anna Quindlen was a columnist for the New York Times from 1981 to 1994, becoming only the third woman in the paper's history to write a regular column for its powerful Op-Ed page. In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She left newspapers in 1995 to become a full-time novelist, and was the first writer ever to have books appear in the fiction, non-fiction, and self-help New York Times Bestseller lists. In this recording, Quindlen reads an excerpt from Emma Bugbee, who worked for the New York Herald Tribune for over 50 years. This piece is about the December 1912 suffragist march from New York City to Albany.
    1 min
  • Stop 16--Carol Jenkins
    Carol Jenkins is a writer, producer, and Emmy award-winning former television anchor and correspondent. She spent 30 years with newspaper departments throughout New York City, hosted her own talk show, and is also president of the Women’s Media Center. She speaks here in the voice of Ida B. Wells, a former slave who fled to New York City after her newspaper "Free Speech" -- which exposed lynchings in her hometown of Memphis -- was destroyed by a mob.
    2 min
  • Stop 15--Toni Reinhold
    Author, Reuters editor, and President of the Newswomen's Club of New York Toni Reinhold reads a chilling report from Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Mad-House." Reinhold began her career as a freelancer for the New York Daily News and radio stations WNBC and WHN while taking college classes at night, and remains an active pioneer for other female journalists. Journalist Nellie Bly is often best remembered for traveling around the world in less than 80 days to break Jules Verne's fictional record; but in this report, she exposes the harsh conditions of the insane asylum for women on Blackwell's Island.
    2 min
  • Stop 13--Barbara Goldsmith
    Barbara Goldsmith is an author, historian, and philanthropist, and wrote a comprehensive biography of Victoria Woodhull titled "Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull." Her account received numerous honors from critics such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Here she records a powerful quote from her book, which emphasizes Woodhull's charisma, passion, and controversial ideas.
    2 min
  • Stop 12--Kathleen Turner
    Kathleen Turner's first breakthrough role as an actress was in the 1981 film "Body Heat." Since then, she has starred in a variety of movies, including "Romancing the Stone," "The Virgin Suicides," and an Oscar-nominated role in "Peggy Sue Got Married." She is also the chair of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Advocates, and has testified before Congress on issues pertaining to women's rights. She speaks here in the voice of Augusta Lewis, a union organizer who was once fired by Elizabeth Cady Stanton for trying to organize in her printing shop.
    2 min

About Opening the Way -- The Women's eNews Women's History Walk

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Discover the rich history of women's influence in downtown Manhattan that traces the foundation of NYC on this 21-stop walking tour, developed by award-winning nonprofit news service Women's eNews, and celebrating women's contributions to our society. Researched and written by former New York Times editor Betsy Wade and historian James Boylan, the walk highlights pioneer writers, agitators, abolitionists, suffragists, and those we now call activists, as well as three heroes who gave their lives on September 11, 2001. Feel the impact of their lives and absorb a sense of the world in which they worked and made themselves heard above the roar of the city.