Barbara Smith Birthday, Date of Birth

Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a scholar, activist, critic, lecturer, author, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities for 25 years. Smith's essays, reviews, articles, short stories and literary criticism have appeared in a range of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Ms., Gay Community News, The Guardian, The Village Voice, Conditions and The Nation. She has a twin sister, Beverly Smith, who is also a lesbian feminist activist and writer.

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16th of December 1946 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 16, 1946

Anti-Stalin Paper Is Punished

Date: 17 December 1946

Nanking Salvation Daily suspended for anti-Stalin article

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WRIT IN STRIKE ON PAPER; Pickets Limited Temporarily in Dispute on Wichita Eagle

Date: 17 December 1946

ct orders temporary injunction against Eagle pickets; mgt-Guild talks resume

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THREATS TO PRESS SEEN; Freedom Still Endangered, Says Dr. Robert E. Cushman

Date: 16 December 1946

Keep Our Press Free (pub) article cited

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STEREOTYPERS TELL OF BEING ABDUCTED

Date: 16 December 1946

police investigate alleged abduction of 4 stereotypers in attempt to cross picket line in Wichita Eagle Guild strike

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FORREST DEPLORES RISING PRESS CURBS; Editor at St. Paul's Service Says U.S. Will Press Fight for Liberal U.N. Policy Threat in U.S. Seen Sees Move for "Disciplining"

Date: 16 December 1946

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Elected Natl Shrine of the Bill of Rights Soc pres

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INVERCHAPEL URGES 'FRIENDLY' CRITICISM

Date: 17 December 1946

urges US and Brit press to criticize each other's country in friendly fashion, s at Women's Natl Press Club; lauds A O McCormick and Mrs F D Roosevelt as columnists

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