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Paula Giddings (Paula Jane Giddings) was born on 1947 in Yonkers, New York, U.S., is an American writer and historian (born 1947). Discover Paula Giddings's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Writer, historian, and civil rights activist
Age 77 years old
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Born 1947, 1947
Birthday 1947
Birthplace Yonkers, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1947

Paula Jane Giddings (born 1947) is an American writer, historian, and civil rights activist.

Paula Jane Giddings was born on November 16, 1947, in Yonkers, New York, to Virginia Iola Stokes and Curtis Gulliver Giddings.

She grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood in Yonkers, New York, where she regularly and systematically experienced isolation and racism from her white neighbors.

As a teen in Yonkers, Giddings personally experienced and witnessed the racism and violence against African Americans that led to and occurred in reaction to the Civil Rights Movement.

This led her to participate in the movement as a Freedom Rider. According to Giddings, this set the stage for her desire to understand both oppression and resistance to it, a theme that would recur through her own activism and writing.

1965

In 1965, Giddings enrolled in the historically Black college Howard University, where she worked on the university's newspaper beginning in her first year.

1967

In 1967, she became editor of the university's literary magazine,The Promethean, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1969.

As a student at Howard, Giddings was part of a group of students who worked against sexism, colorism, and classism that they saw as rampant on their campus.

1969

From 1969 to 1972, Giddings worked for Random House, first as an editorial assistant and later as a copy editor.

She then became an associate book editor for the Howard University Press.

1970

The book tracks the history of Black women in the United States through the 1970s and the confluence of the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements.

Kirkus Reviews described When and Where I Enter as "the first historical study of the relationship, in America, between racism and sexism--broad-ranging, occasionally plodding, generally sound and insightful."

The following year, Giddings served as contributing editor and book review editor for Essence magazine and became a distinguished scholar for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF).

1975

In 1975, she moved to Paris, France, to serve as the Paris bureau chief for Encore America/Worldwide News.

In 1975, she traveled to South Africa, where she had the opportunity to meet leaders of the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

1979

Two years later, she transferred to the New York office, where she served as an associate editor until 1979.

1984

She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America (1984), In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (1988) and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching (2008).

In 1984, Giddings published her first book, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America.

1988

In 1988, Giddings joined the faculty of Douglass College at Rutgers University.

That same year, she published In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement, a history of Delta Sigma Theta, the African-American sorority of which she is a member.

The book was recognized for its depth and its focus on the influence of Delta Sigma Theta and its members.

2001

In 2001, Giddings joined Smith College as the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Africana Studies.

She also served as the editor of feminist journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.

2008

Giddings received many accolades upon the 2008 publication of her biography of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.

Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching received the 2008 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award, and was the 2009 Nonfiction winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award.

In addition, it was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2008 and was named a Best Book of 2008 by both the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.

2011

Additionally, the book was recognized as the inaugural Duke University John Hope Franklin Research Center Book Award winner in 2011.

2017

She then became Smith College department chair and honors thesis advisor for the department of Africana studies, where she remained until her retirement in 2017.

In 2017, Giddings was a National Book Award Judge for nonfiction works.

That same year, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.