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THE CARL BECKER LECTURE SERIES
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
Barbara Ransby
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
and the Black Freedom
Movement: A Radical
Democratic Vision.
Ransby's most recent
book (2013), Eslanda:
The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs.
Paul Robeson, recuses
this bold, accomplished
scholar-activist from
the shadow of her fa-
Tuesday, April 7 @ 4:30 p.m.
"Can History Change the Future? The Struggle Over Public mous controversial
History and the Uses of Memory"
husband.
Phil Lewis Auditorium
Sponsored by the
Department of History
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.
http://
history.arts.cornell.edu/