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Black Women's Struggle for Equality

Women's Voices

Image from African American Women and the Struggle for Equality video

2017

African American women have always been part of the African American struggle for full equality. Learn how early freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Anna Julia Cooper fought against multiple oppressions. Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how the intersections of these oppressions manifest today in the term she coined, “intersectionality.” Voiced by Jouelzy and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw.