Oral history interview with Jeanne M. Radow

Collection

Identifier: SR 9029

Staff Only

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

1978 March 15

Creator

Radow, Jeanne M. (Jeanne Michaels), 1921-2013 (Interviewee, 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

Additional Description

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.