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Maria W. Stewart
Birthday Unkown Stewart began as an indentured servant and then later became an abolitionist and women’s rights activist. She was the first African American woman on record to lecture publicly on women’s rights, and her speeches often preached African American exceptionalism and the autonomy of black women. -
Sojourner Truth speaks up
Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I A Woman," Delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. -
Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston’s 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is widely considered one of the best novels of the 20th century.A literary giant, she was a cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance and influenced generations of writers who came after her. -
Amy Jacques Garvey
. A gifted journalist, she worked as a columnist for Negro World in Harlem and often discussed the intersectionality of race, gender and class as it pertained to black women. She wrote once in an essay, “The [black men] will more readily sing the praises of white women than their own; yet who is more deserving of admiration than the black woman, she who has borne the rigors of slavery, the deprivations consequent on a pauperized race, and the indignities heaped upon a weak and defenseless people -
The Start
The National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) was established in Washington, D.C., USA -
Anna Julia Cooper
Cooper was the fourth African American woman to earn a PhD when she graduated from University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924. Cooper puslished a the book Voice from the South: By a Woman from the South. Cooper argued for the self-determination of black women, is considered the first volume of black feminist thought in the U.S. -
DCVL founded
Amelia Boynton Robinson, her husband Samuel William Boynton, and other African American activists founded the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) To help black vote. -
NBFO IN NYC
Founding of the National Black Feminist Organization in New York.
Founding members included Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold, Doris Wright and Margaret Sloan-Hunter. -
The end of NBFO
the National black feminist organization stopped operating nationally -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Adichie has said that her feminist ways were broadcasted at an early age, the age of 14 when he older brother figure told her she was the feminist. She didn’t even know what the word meant until she looked up the definition in the dictionary. She found out what it meant and added it under her belt. Since Beyonce sample a piece of her speech for the new feminist anthem "Flawless" she has gained major recognition. -
Women March In Boston
The Combahee River Collective protest of the murders of twelve black women in Boston. -
First National Conference
First National Conference on Third World Women and Violence in Washington, DC -
Beyonce
Some may disagree but Beyonce is considered a black feminist to alot. She has opened the eyes to the new genernation of black girls and have won over alot to study the black feminism history. Beyonce have been used her superstar platform to give young black girls little knowledge about thefeminism world in her songs like "Pretty Hurts" "Flawless" and her classic with Destiny's Child "Idependent Women" -
Women of Color Press.
Establishment of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press by author Barbara Smith at the suggestion of her friend, poet Audre Lorde. -
Nicki Minaj
Yes another person you might not say is a fem but she sure is in our book. Nicki had countless showed her feeling being a female in the male dominant world of rap. She spoke on being called a "bitch" when she's a assertive while a male would get praised for the same actions and be called "Bossed up"
“There’s no negative connotation behind ‘bossed up,’ but lots of negative connotation behind being a ‘bitch.’ This right here is what the whole feminism movemnt is all about! -
Fredick Douglass Speeks
In as peech, he both reaffirmed his stance and pointed to the primacy of women in their own movement: "I believe no man, however gifted with thought and speech, can voice the wrongs and present the demands of women with the skill and effect, with the power and authority of woman herself. The man struck is the man to cry out. Woman … is her own best representative.“ -
Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins defined Black feminism, in Black Feminist Thought (1991), as including "women who theorize the experiences and ideas shared by ordinary black women that provide a unique angle of vision on self, community, and society" -
Azealia Banks
Yes the queen of twitter beef is consider to be a black feminist! Azealia Is consider to be a fem becuase she bring up topics such as curtle smuding. One point she made is that Us black really don't even own Hip-Hop anymore. She stated "The message I see when the hip-hop/rap grammy's are given out are that they say to white kids "Oh you're great, you can do whatever you put your mind to" and for black kids they say "You dont own nothing, not even the thing you created for youseleves." -
Renna Walker
Reena Walker went on to put out the call to various women and organized the group African Americans Against Violence that effectively stopped a parade that a group of reverends led by Al Sharpton were attempting to hold in Harlem for Mike Tyson. -
the African American Agenda 2000
Ex black panter member Angela Daviswith the help of Kimberlé Crenshaw and others, she formed the African American Agenda 2000, an alliance of Black feminists. -
African Feminist Forum
The African Feminist Forum is a biennial conference that brings together African feminist activists to deliberate on issues of key concern to the feminist movement. It took place for the first time in Accra, Ghana. -
Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton
the release of Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton, (Palgrave Macmillan) by Associate Professor Duchess Harris, which analyzes black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed. -
Sex discrimination is outlawed
Sex discrimination is outlawed in health insurance. -
Flawless
The song by singer Beyonce featuring Nicki Minaj was consider the new feminist anthem. The song is about loving youself however you look.
