The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum hosted University of Pennsylvania professor Barbara Savage. She discussed her new biography “Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of A Black Women Scholar” (Yale University Press; November 2023) which tells the astonishing story of a woman, who, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world,” never allowed her intellectual ambitions to be thwarted. This conversation was moderated by Dr. Randal Jelks.
Full video and photos coming soon!
About Our Speaker
Barbara D. Savage is a historian and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work includes Your Spirits Walk Beside Us, winner of the 2012 Grawemeyer Prize in Religion. She lives in Philadelphia, PA.
