LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A historian noted for her study of African American women will offer a post-election reflection in 鈥淲hat Now? What Next? Revisiting the Radical Voices of the Civil Rights Movement鈥 Nov. 10 at the University of Louisville.
Barbara Ransby, author of 鈥淓lla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision,鈥 will deliver the second annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture. The lecture is sponsored by UofL鈥檚 Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research.
The free, public talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the School of Music鈥檚 Comstock Hall. Ransby will have a 5 p.m. signing in the Comstock foyer.
Ransby leads the gender and women鈥檚 studies program at University of Illinois-Chicago, where she also is associate professor of history and African American studies. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Race and Class.
The Anne Braden lecture and institute are named for a Louisvillian who was active in the civil rights movement for nearly six decades. The institute is an initiative of UofL鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences.
The institute also will sponsor a free community conversation with Ransby from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Yearlings Club, 4309 W. Broadway.
For more information, contact Cate Fosl, institute director, at 502-852-6142 or visit