Martha Biondi
Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Martha Biondi is the Lorraine H Morton Professor of Black Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She writes about 20th century Black radicalism and social movements. Her book, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City, was the first book-length account of the northern civil rights movement. Harvard University Press awarded it the Thomas J. Wilson Prize. Her book The Black Revolution on Campus explored the nationwide Black student movement of the late 1960s and the struggle to forge Black Studies programs in the 1970s and beyond. It won the AHA’s Wesley-Logan Prize for an outstanding book in the history of the African Diaspora. Biondi is currently writing a book on US based solidarity organizing with southern African liberation struggles from roughly 1965-1994. She focuses on a leading Chicago activist to narrate solidarity with the struggles against Portuguese colonialism and South African apartheid.