Please join us for a discussion with historian, writer and longtime activist Barbara Ransby on "Black Women and Long Struggle for Racial, Gender and Economic Justice, 1969 to 2019".
Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer and longtime activist. She is a Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative. She is author of the highly acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, which received eight national awards and recognitions. She is also the author of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press, January 2013) and, most recently, Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the 21st Century (University of California Press, 2019).
Hosted by the Marquette Forum, Raynor Memorial Libraries, and Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
Thursday, January 31, 2019
12:00 p.m. - Light Lunch
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. - Discussion
Marquette University
Eckstein Hall, Lubar Center, Room 144
1215 W. Michigan St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Limited parking is available for $10 in the Wells Street Structure located at 1240 W. Wells Street. Guests attending together are encouraged to car pool. Metered and street parking also available.
