Lily Golden

Lily Golden
Lily Golden
Лия Голден
	Golden in 2005
Born	Liya Oliverovna Golden; 18 July 1934; Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Died	6 December 2010 (aged 76)
Occupations	Historian; civil rights activist; writer;
Spouses	; Abdullah Kassim Hanga (m. 1960; died 1968) Boris Yagovlev;
Children	Elena Khanga
Father	Oliver Golden
Academic background
Alma mater	State Conservatory of Uzbekistan; Moscow State University;
Academic work
Discipline	Black studies
Institutions	Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute for African Studies; Chicago State University;

Liya Oliverovna Golden (Russian: Лия Оливеровна Голден; 18 July 1934 – 6 December 2010) was a Soviet and Russian historian and civil rights advocate. A national tennis player and pianist during her youth, she worked at the Institute for African Studies and did research on Black studies. After moving to the United States after Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, she became a scholar-in-residence at Chicago State University and an advocate for racial equality.