New History: Same Old Story
Revising the Origins of the US Women's Rights Movement
 A Zoom Presentation by Paula Giddings
Date:
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 7 pm
Details:
Register for the Zoom link.  Admission: Sliding scale: $0 to $20.
Seneca Falls is where most people hear that the women’s movement was launched. But is that true? Who was and wasn’t a part of it? And what impact has the origin story had on the movement today? Relying on new research, nationally noted scholar and writer Paula Giddings will explore this important topic in American history.
Paula Giddings
About Paula Giddings
Paula Giddings has published four books:
  • When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America
  • In Search of Sisterhood, Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement
  • Burning All Illusions, (editor) an anthology of articles on race published by the Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000
  • Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching.
The latter was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Los Angeles Times Prize in Biography and the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. In 2008, the Chicago Tribune and Washington Post listed Ida as one of the most important books the year.
In 2017, Ms. Giddings was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor (Emerita), Africana Studies, at Smith College and editor emerita of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism - a scholarly journal published at Smith.