Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Paula Giddings
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Starting at 1 PM
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church
110 W Catharine St.
Paula Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Ms. Giddings will be in conversation with Christa Caceres, Monroe County NAACP Chapter President
Ida, A Sword Among Lions and the Campaign Against Lynching received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Ida also received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; and was deemed one of the best books of 2008 by the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Ida also earned the first inaugural John Hope Franklin Research Center Book Award presented by the Duke University Libraries.
In addition to Ida, A Sword Among Lions, Paula J. Giddings, the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Africana Studies (Emerita) at Smith College, 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; Burning All Illusions, (editor) and an anthology of articles on race published by the Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000.
While at Smith, Giddings was the editor of Meridians, feminism, race, transnationalism. a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Previously she had been a book editor at Howard University Press; a magazine editor at Encore American and Worldwide News, where she was the Paris Bureau Chief; and a journalist who has written extensively on international and national issues for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeune Afrique (Paris), and The Nation among other publications.
Giddings has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation; the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (unfulfilled). She has also been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Wesleyan University, Bennett College, and Howard University, and was named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. She is on the board of Nation Institute and the Authors League Fund and is a member of PEN. Ms. Giddings was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
Paula J. Giddings, the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Africana Studies (Emerita) at Smith College, is the author of four books: 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; Burning All Illusions, (editor) an anthology of articles on race published by the Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000; and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching.
Ida, A Sword Among Lions received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Ida also received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavas Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; and was deemed one of the best books of 2008 by the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Ida also earned the first inaugural John Hope Franklin Research Center Book Award presented by the Duke University Libraries.
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Christa Caceres is proud to serve as President for the Monroe County Chapter of the NAACP. She holds a B.A. in Jurisprudence and M.S. in Law and Public Policy from the California University of Pennsylvania. Christa’s leadership and advocacy activities include service on the board of directors for The Greater Pike Community Foundation, Pocono Mountains United Way, Emerge Pennsylvania and the newly formed Seven Oaks Collective. She also serves as co-chair of PMUW’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion cohort, maintains life membership in the NAACP, is a longtime member of Rotary Club of the Stroudsburgs and an active member of the Greater Pocono Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. In 2021, Christa was the recipient of the prestigious MLK Community Member Award from East Stroudsburg University.
Following calls for reform in law enforcement, Christa has taken a proactive approach and formed the Monroe County Community Roundtable which unites the leaders of local and state law enforcement with Monroe County NAACP to find strategic and creative ways to make lasting changes in our community together. Mrs. Caceres and her family have been residents of the Pocono Mountains since 2005.