Flying University - Robyn Spencer: The Women of the Black Panther Movement

This rebel organization also educated women, who were barred from attending the official university, including Marie Curie. In that spirit, each Flying University talk highlights a piece of history that has been “conveniently forgotten”.  Lets set the record straight. 
 
This Month: 
Robyn Spencer – The Women of the Black Panther Movement
With opening talks by Elizabeth Hira and Lucie Levine
 
Doors: 7:00
Show: 7:30
Tickets: $15
 
 
 
Robyn C. Spencer is a historian who focuses on Black social protest after World War II, urban and working-class radicalism, and gender. She teaches survey and seminar courses on Black history at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her first book was The Revolution Has Come:  Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland, on gender and the organizational evolution of the Black Panther Party in Oakland.
 
Her writings on the Black Panther Party have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Souls, Radical Teacher and several collections of essays on the 1960s. In 2016 she received a Mellon fellowship at Yale University to work on her second book project: To Build the World Anew: Black Liberation Politics and the Movement Against the Vietnam War.  She is also working on a short biography of Angela Davis for Westview Press’ Lives of American women series. 
 
She is a committed activist and participates in many grassroots education initiatives aimed at bringing the history of the Black Power movement to community based spaces. She has contributed essays connecting history to current events to The Washington Post, Black Youth Project Blog, Vibe Magazine, Colorlines, Truthout, and Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. 
 
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