Lindy Boggs: Steel and Velvet (2006)
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Documentary
Place Covered: Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority, Blackbird Films
Date Issued: 2006-08-7
Duration: 00:55:37
Subjects: Boggs, Lindy, 1916- | Boggs, Hale, 1914-1972 | Politics | Women legislators | Civil Rights | Sigmund, Barbara Boggs, 1939-1990 | Roberts, Cokie
Contributors:
- Carrick, Bess Producer
- Roberts, Rebecca Narrator
- Boggs, Lindy Interviewee
- Pelosi, Nancy Interviewee
- Maney, Patrick Interviewee
- Lewis, John Interviewee
- Landrieu, Mary Interviewee
- Foley, Thomas Interviewee
- Roberts, Cokie Interviewee
- Tyler, Pamela Interviewee
- Coleman, James J. Interviewee
- Boggs, Hale Speaker
- Roberts, Steve Interviewee
- Lee, Harry Interviewee
- Johnson, Luci Baines Interviewee
- Landrieu, Moon Interviewee
- Boggs, Thomas Hale Interviewee
- Kaptur, Marcy Interviewee
- Schoonmaker, Jan Interviewee
- Stokes, Louis Interviewee
- Breaux, John Interviewee
- Totenburg, Nina Interviewee
- Maleevy, Nancy Interviewee
- Anderson, Donn Interviewee
Description
A 2006 documentary chronicling the life and career of Lindy Boggs, the first woman elected to Congress from Louisiana. It covers: her early life in Pointe Coupee Parish; her marriage to Hale Boggs; his election to Congress in 1940; their political partnership and fight against segregation; his disappearance in a plane crash in Alaska in 1972; her election to Congress in 1973; her role in ending discrimination against women seeking access to credit; her founding of the Women’s Caucus; her effectiveness on Congressional committees; her role as the first woman to chair a national political convention; her opposition to abortion; her retirement from Congress in 1991; the death of her daughter Barbara Boggs Sigmund; her role as the Ambassador to the Vatican from 1997-2001; and her retirement in New Orleans. This documentary includes interviews with: Boggs’ children, Cokie Roberts and Thomas Hale Boggs; her son-in-law, Steve Roberts; her friends, Sheriff Harry Lee, Luci Baines Johnson, and Moon Landrieu; her Congressional colleagues, U.S. Representatives Nancy Pelosi, John Lewis, Thomas Foley, Marcy Kaptur, and Louis Stokes; and United States Senators Mary Landrieu and John Breaux. Boggs’ granddaughter, Rebecca Roberts, narrates this documentary.