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Barbara D. Savage

1953–

United States

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Barbara Dianne Savage (born 1953) is an American author, historian, and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches undergraduate and graduate and courses that focus on 20th century African American history, the history of American religious and social reform movements, the history of the relationship between media and politics and black women's political and intellectual history. Savage graduated from the University of Virginia and the Georgetown University Law Center.

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