April 6, 7, 8 -- Barbara Ransby: on Ella Baker, Black Freedom Movement & Black Lives Matter

03/30/15

Contributed by Patricia Rodriguez

 

Barbara Ransby, scholar, author and longtime political activist, is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago and Director of the campus wide Social Justice Initiative. Barbara Ransby is the author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision.

 

Monday, April 6, 2015 @ 4:30 p.m.

"Are you a Biographer or a Historian?": Radical Life Narrative Changing 20th Century Historiography"

Phil Lewis Auditorium

 

Tuesday, April 7 @ 4:30 p.m.

"Can History Change the Future? The Struggle Over Public History and the Uses of Memory"

Phil Lewis Auditorium

 

Wednesday, April 8, Africana Center @ 4:30 p.m.

“Conversations: 'Black Lives Matter', Past and Present: Ella Baker's Legacy and the Implications for 21st Activism”

~Join Barbara for an open and informal campus and Ithaca community conversation

 

 

 

For disability accomodations, call the Africana center at Cornell: (607) 255-3822

sponsored by History Dept @ cornell

 

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