journalism history
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Vivian Castleberry’s Equality Stories
I am working on my book chapter about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and her role in the women’s liberation movement. This is the lead from the 1980 article she wrote, “Equality: How Far Do Men Want To Go?” “Many men say they desire relationships of equality with women. But the past often dies hard – for both men and women. For many men, equality stops with dirty dishes and the dirty diapers. For many women, it stops with when the car stalls on the freeway and when the kitchen sink stops up.”
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Vivian Castleberry’s Equality Stories
I am working on my book chapter about Dallas women’s page editor Vivian Castleberry and her role in the women’s liberation movement. This is the lead from the 1980 article she wrote, “Equality: How Far Do Men Want To Go?” “Many men say they desire relationships of equality with women. But the past often dies hard – for both men and women. For many men, equality stops with dirty dishes and the dirty diapers. For many women, it stops with when the car stalls on the freeway and when the kitchen sink stops up.”
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Vivian Castleberry’s college years
Today I did more work on my Vivian Castleberry book today, focusing on her college years at Southern Methodist University during World War II. Because so many men were off serving their country, she had opportunities that she would have not had otherwise such as being editor of the student newspaper. The above image came from her 1944 yearbook, the Rotunda, that I found on eBay.
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Vivian Castleberry’s college years
Today I did more work on my Vivian Castleberry book today, focusing on her college years at Southern Methodist University during World War II. Because so many men were off serving their country, she had opportunities that she would have not had otherwise such as being editor of the student newspaper. The above image came from her 1944 yearbook, the Rotunda, that I found on eBay.
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New Mexico women’s page editors
I just finished reading A History of New Mexico Press Women. It is a state that I have not looked at before in my search of women’s pages. The organization was started in 1950 by Ann Conger, women’s page editor of the Albuquerque Tribune. Its meetings had interesting programming that went beyond traditional content. A 1966 speaker oversaw the seminar: “Civil Rights for the Minorities.”
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Val Imm’s Sixth Floor Museum Interview
I am in the middle of transcribing the July 23, 1997, videotaped oral history of Val Imm. It is part if the Sixth Floor Museum’s oral history project in relation to the JFK assassination – but also explores Dallas overall. (Val was at Love Field when the president and first lady arrived.) Val was the society editor at the Dallas Times-Herald from 1960 to 1970. She reported to Vivian Castleberry who I am writing about. She won several awards for her work. She looked at society writing as sociology rather than high society. It was the same approach that Charlotte Curtis took at the New York Times.
