Oral history interview with Jeanne M. Radow
Scope and Contents
This oral history interview with Jeanne M. Radow was conducted by Roberta Watts at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, on March 15, 1978. A transcript is available.
In this interview, Radow discusses her involvement with Planned Parenthood and describes the services the clinic provides and its organizational structure. She talks about the opposition Planned Parenthood faces due to its abortion and birth control services, and discusses laws regarding reproductive rights that had recently passed in Oregon at the time of the interview in 1978. She speaks at length about the early years of Planned Parenthood in Portland. She describes the methods of birth control available at the time of the interview in 1978, as well as opposition towards sex education in schools. She then talks about her early life in New York, New York; discusses her service in the Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines at the end of World War II; and talks about working as a nurse for Planned Parenthood around the United States. She closes the interview by returning to the topic of her involvement in the Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland and the services the clinic provides.
Dates
- Creation: 1978 March 15
Creator
- Radow, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Michaels), 1921-2013 (Interviewee, Person)
- Watts, Roberta (Interviewer, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Biographical note
Jeanne Michaels Radow, nee Jeanne Harrison Michaels, was born in New York, New York, in 1921. She went to Bennington College and the Yale School of Nursing. She served in the Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines at the end of World War II. In 1948, she and Jack Harold Radow were married; they later had two children. The Radows eventually settled in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where she helped to found the first Planned Parenthood in Portland, Oregon. During her retirement, she served as a docent for the Portland Art Museum. She died in 2013.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 audiocassette (1 hr., 3 min., 21 sec.) + transcript (40 pages))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Oral history interview with Jeanne M. Radow conducted by Roberta Watts on March 15, 1978. Radow was one of the founders of the first Planned Parenthood in Portland, Oregon.
Existence and Location of Copies
Subject
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette (Organization)
- Radow, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Michaels), 1921-2013 (Person)
- Title
- Guide to oral history interview with Jeanne M. Radow
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah Stroman
- Date
- 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Sponsor
- Digitization funded by the James F. Miller Endowment.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository
1200 SW Park Ave.
Portland OR 97205 United States
5033065204
5033065240
libreference@ohs.org