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The Franklin D. Roosevelt

Presidential Library and Museum

presents a Women's History

Month Conversation:

"The Prescient Life of Ida B. Wells"

with Paula J. Giddings

Tuesday, March 26, 2024; 6PM

In-person: Wallace Center at the

FDR Presidential Library and Home

CLICK HERE to register

for in-person attendance

Online: Streamed live to the

official FDR Library YouTube

and Facebook accounts

HYDE PARK, NY -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a Women's History Month Conversation, "The Prescient Life of Ida B. Wells" with Paula J. Giddings -- a discussion of Ida B. Wells, a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fights for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings -- at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home and streamed live to the official FDR Presidential Library YouTube and Facebook accounts. This is a free public event, but registration is required to attend in-person. CLICK HERE to register.

Registered attendees can visit the Library's special exhibition, BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, free of charge before the program, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Professor Giddings was a member of the Library’s exhibit advisory committee -- a distinguished committee of historical advisers who worked closely with Roosevelt Library staff to develop the current special exhibition.

Paula J. Giddings 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. She is the author of 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 and IDA, A SWORD AMONG LIONS: IDA B. WELLS AND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LYNCHING. IDA 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 of the year. In 2017, Professor Giddings was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.