Pat Denton Papers: Video Recordings and Interviews

Description

The Pat Denton papers include correspondence, photographs, video recordings, newsletters, and publications collected or created by Pat Denton during her long career as a feminist activist in New Orleans. Denton was involved with a number of women’s political organizations during the 1970s and 1980s, including the National Organization for Women, the Louisiana Women’s Political Caucus, the League of Women Voters, and several others. Because of her involvement with these organizations, the records in this collection reflect a broad range of women’s issues and political activity during the second-wave feminist movement.

The video recordings in this collection largely date from Denton’s tenure as president of New Orleans Women in Video. As part of a municipal endowment grant awarded by the city of New Orleans, Denton and her colleagues in New Orleans Women in Video produced a short documentary entitled Feminist! Are YOU One? The documentary included interviews with several prominent Louisiana political figures, including Mary Landrieu, Lindy Boggs, Sidney Barthelemy, Sylvia Roberts, Maurice Durbin, and Rupert Richardson. Interviews were also conducted with local activists, as well as “on-the-street” interviews with members of the New Orleans community. The interviews with political figures largely deal with changes in women’s political power in Louisiana, while the street interviews are concerned with popular perceptions of feminism and feminists. A complete copy of the documentary, along with raw footage of the interviews, is available in this collection.