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„Wie oft denn noch: Dein Vater ist nicht da und darum gilt, was ich sage. Will das endlich in deinen dummen Schädel?“, herrschte ihre Mutter sie an.Anna ist verzweifelt. Der zweite Weltkrieg war gerade vorbei. Nach dem Willen ihrer Mutter sollte sie den unsympathischen Bauernsohn Sebastian heiraten. Ihr Vater, der einzige Mensch, der ihr in dieser Welt von bäuerlichen Traditionen und Konventionen die freie Wahl gelassen hätte, war im Krieg geblieben.Die US-Army hatte ihr kleines, biederes Heimatdorf eingenommen.

Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is the story of an unsung civil rights organizer, Black Power activist, and barrier-breaking Black woman, Florence Louise Tate (1931-2014). Tate was close to the young leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She became a mentor, a mother-of-the-movement, and a target of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.

This short account of Swami Vivekananda, the Vedantist who brought Hinduism to America, focuses on the years 1893 to 1897. After a famous speech at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, Vivekananda promoted his religious beliefs and practices by lecturing extensively across the United States, teaching and attracting devotees, producing a wealth of publications and tracts on Hinduism, encouraging vegetarianism, writing the first book on yoga to appear in America and so on, for a new and enthusiastic audience.

These audio recordings include a 1977 interview with 108 year old Florence Pannel, born in 1868, discussing living and working in Paris and Victorian England; a 1970 interview with Frances 'Effy' Jones recalling being one of the first women trained to use a typewriter, and life as a young woman in 1890s London; Berta Ruck, a romantic novelist, remembering her formative years at art school, and the culture shock she experienced after moving from her home in Wales to the hustle and bustle in the heart of Victorian London; and a 1972 interview with 83 year old Violet Turner.