Feminine Footprints Collection

The Feminine Footprints Collection includes materials related to the creation and broadcast of Carolyn Armenta Davis’ radio series project, Feminine Footprints. The collection is arranged into two boxes and includes materials from 1973 to 2003.

Series 1: Research Materials, 1973-1978, 1994, 2000-2003, contains materials Davis created, compiled, and used for researching influential Black women. Included in this series are printed out email correspondence, printed out webpages that capture information about individuals, and a variety of magazine titles. Materials from this series helped to inform her 1978 radio series, Feminine Footprints, and lectures for the 25th anniversary of Feminine Footprints in 2003.

Series 2: Feminine Footprints Radio Program, 1976-1978, 1982, includes materials related to the radio program, Feminine Footprints, such as correspondence, agreements, and promotional materials related to Mutual Black Network. Series 2 also includes scripts, episode lists, press releases and publicity, newspaper clippings, and awards.

Series 3: Audiovisual Media, 1978, consists of three magnetic reel-to-reel tapes of the 65 Feminine Footprints episodes. Part 1 includes twenty episodes from March 1978, Part 2 includes twenty episodes from April 1978, and Part 3 includes the remaining twenty-five episodes.