Interview with Saddie Smith, 2011
“Black women, we kinda get rolled up into one or the other. Either black or either woman and we never get our little, like, standalone kind of thing. And I think it’s a very different dynamic, and a dual personality, and you’re always balancing the African American versus the woman.”
A first generation college student, Saddie Smith, Class of 1975, was one of the first Black women to graduate from Bowdoin. She was a Dean’s List student and majored in Classics. During her time at Bowdoin, Smith served as an officer of the Afro-American Society (now the Black Student Union), and she studied abroad in Rome to learn about Italian art and history. Smith received the Sewall Latin Prize her senior year. After graduation, Smith earned a degree at Columbia Law School.
🔊 Listen below to excerpts of an interview with Smith, conducted by Stephanie Bond ‘13.
Saddie Smith in the Bowdoin Bugle, student yearbook, 1975