Smith, Barbara, 1946- (Personal Name)

Yours in struggle, 1988, c1984: CIP t.p. (Barbara Smith) data sheet (b. 12-16-46)

The truth that never hurts, 1998: t.p. (Barbara Smith)

Wikipedia, March 8, 2013 (Barbara Smith (born in December 16, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American lesbian feminist who has played a significant role in building and sustaining Black Feminism in the United States. Since the early 1970s she has been active as a critic, teacher, lecturer, author, scholar, and publisher of Black feminist thought. She is co-founder and publisher of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. She has also taught at numerous colleges and universities over the last twenty five years; Smith was elected to the Albany NY Common Council (city council) in 2005; she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2005)

African American National Biography, accessed September 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Smith, Barbara; civil rights activist, lecturer, women's rights advocate, gay rights activist; born 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States; designed an interdepartmental major in sociology and English, Mount Holyoke College (1965); graduated from Mount Holyoke (1969); cofounded the Combahee River Collective, Boston, Massachusetts (1974-1980); became the first woman of color to be appointed to the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status of Women in the Professions (1974); received the Stonewall Award for service to the lesbian and gay community by the Anderson Prize Foundation (1994); scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City (1995-1996); fellow, Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College (1997))