Season 4: Episode 9: Ernestine Eckstein
Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive - January 24, 2019
- 33:45
Ernestine Eckstein is an iconic figure from the 1960s homophile movement—from photos showing her as the only African American woman at the earliest protests, to her trailblazing cover story in The Ladder. Now we can put a voice to those images with a never-before-heard 1965 interview.Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources.
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