GWST 1501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mary Church Terrell, Combahee River, Black Feminism
13 Feb 2018
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We are a collective of black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. Doing political work with other organizations as well. Actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. Black women"s extremely negative relationship to the american political system (a system of white male rule) has always been determined by our membership in two oppressed racial and sexual castes. There have always been black women activists some known, like sojourner truth, harriet tubman, Wells barnett, and mary church terrell, and thousands upon thousands unknown. (civil rights, black nationalism, the black panthers), and all of our lives were greatly affected and changed by their ideologies, their goals, and the tactics used to achieve their goals. It was these movements that made poc realize they needed their own movement as well.
