Smith, Barbara, 1946-

LC control no.	n 88040014
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Personal name heading	Smith, Barbara, 1946- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Located	Albany (N.Y.)
Birth date	19461216
Place of birth	Cleveland (Ohio)
Field of activity	Feminism and literature Gay rights Civil service
Affiliation	Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Mount Holyoke College Combahee River Collective Modern Language Association of America. Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession Radcliffe College. Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute
Profession or occupation	African American women authors Lesbian activists Women city council members Educators Civil rights workers
Found in	Yours in struggle, 1988, c1984: CIP t.p. (Barbara Smith) data sheet (b. 12-16-46) The truth that never hurts, 1998: t.p. (Barbara Smith) Wikipedia, March 8, 2013 (Barbara Smith (born in December 16, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as a critic, teacher, lecturer, author, scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She is co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities over the last twenty five years; Smith was elected to the Albany NY Common Council (city council) in 2005; she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2005) African American National Biography, accessed September 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Smith, Barbara; civil rights activist, lecturer, women's rights advocate, gay rights activist; born 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States; designed an interdepartmental major in sociology and English, Mount Holyoke College (1965); graduated from Mount Holyoke (1969); cofounded the Combahee River Collective, Boston, Massachusetts (1974-1980); became the first woman of color to be appointed to the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Professions (1974); received the Stonewall Award for service to the lesbian and gay community by the Anderson Prize Foundation (1994); scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City (1995-1996); fellow, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (1997))
Associated language	eng