Melanie Meents

Eleanor Fischer interviews Paul Robeson Jr. about his father's life and legacy for a documentary program in 1971. 

Eleanor Fischer reports on voter registration and racial tensions in rural Mississippi in 1964.

Gay rights activists speak with Eleanor Fischer about the growing gay liberation movement, the importance of political activism for gay rights groups, and other issues during Gay Pride Week in June of 1972.

Eleanor Fischer and Pat Carbine, co-founder of Ms. Magazine discuss the new publication, and what it will mean for women and the women's liberation movement at the time.

Interviews and dialogue with American supporters of the Irish and those that were in Northern Ireland on the day of the Bloody Sunday attack in 1972.

Eleanor Fischer reports with a short program on the Attica Prison uprising in 1971 in Attica, New York and the outcome that followed.

Eleanor Fischer hosts a panel of women active in the women's liberation movement in 1970. They discuss their thoughts about the movement and the movement's objectors.

Drug use in the 1970s was a hot button issue. Eleanor Fischer tackles the subject through interviews and analyzing the facts.

Eleanor Fischer speaks with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee about Paul Robeson, his cultural contributions and impact on society.

Eleanor Fischer reports on the racial tension and inequality that caused unrest in the later half of the 1960s just a few days after the riots in Newark, New Jersey.

Eleanor Fischer's report on the First National Black Power conference in July of 1967. Was the conference successful in unifying attendees and pushing towards progress? Fischer hopes to find out.

Eleanor Fischer ventures into groups of Vietnam War protesters at a peace march in New York City in April of 1967.

Eleanor Fischer interviews Greek choreographer, Dora Stratou in 1967 after she was recognized for her lifetime devotion to the theater.

Eleanor Fischer interviews Helen Vlachos, conservative Greek newspaper editor, after Vlachos decided to stop publishing her two newspapers due to the threat of censorship by the Greek government in 1967.

Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and activist, was interviewed right after the military coup in Greece. Eleanor Fischer asks her about her citizenship and Mercouri's opinions of the new government.

Eleanor Fischer interviewed four of the young men who took a jail sentence instead of paying the fine when they were arrested for sitting at a segregated lunch counter.

Hoffman Hays, author of The Dangerous Sex: The Myth of Feminine Evil, talks with Eleanor Fischer about his book and the research he completed to write it.

Black college students in Atlanta, Georgia discuss the student movement, what they've accomplished, and their goals for the future.

Eleanor Fischer interviews Dr. Ralph Abernathy and his wife, Juanita Abernathy about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, it's results, and the effects on the community in Montgomery and the rest of Alabama.

Ralph Bunche speaks in front of a group of people for an unknown event. He discusses American race relations and their impact globally.