Martha Biondi is associate professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on African American social movements and antiracist activism. Her book, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (2003), rewrites the narrative of the modern civil rights movement and emphasizes the centrality of the urban North. She is currently writing a book on the Black student movement and the origins of African American studies.

Lecture topics:

• The Northern Civil Rights Movement and Its Unfinished Agenda
• African Americans and the Struggle for Reparations
• The Origins of Affirmative Action on College Campuses
• From Civil Rights to Black Power: Intergenerational Dialogue in the 1960s
• African American Studies and the Desegregation of the Academy

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