In 1971, Aldridge became the first African American woman faculty member
of Emory University and founding director of the first African American
and African Studies degree-granting program in the South, which she
administered until 1990.
In 1988 and 1992, she studied gender and race
issues in the Soviet Union and Brazil. Aldridge served as national
president of four separate national organizations including an
unprecedented two terms as president of the National Council for Black
Studies. She has been chairman of the board of a number of organizations
including the International Black Women’s Congress (IBWC).
As chair of
the IBWC, she organized international conferences on issues related to
the health of Africana women. Aldridge also published Toward Integrating Africana Women into Africana Studies in 1992 and co-edited River of Tears: The Politics of Black Women’s Health in 1993. She is popularly known for her 1994 work, Focusing: Black Male Female Relationships.
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