Carver, George Washington
Cary, Mary Shadd
Casely-Hayford, Adelaide
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Césaire, Aimé
Chafe, William
Chanock, Martin
Chase, Carolyn
Cheatwood, K.T.H.
Chesnut, Mary
Chicago Tribune
Chisholm, Shirley
Chodorow, Nancy
Chrisman, Robert
Christian, Barbara
Christian Recorder
Civil Rights movement See also specific writers
Clark, Septima
Clarke, Cheryl
Clarke, Edward
Clarke, John Henrik
class issues. See labor and economic issues
Cleage, Pearl
Cleaver, Eldridge
Cleaver, Kathleen
Coat Hanger Farewell Protest
Cole, Johnnetta B.
Coleman, Julia F.
Coleman, Larry Delano
Collins, Patricia Hill
Color Me Flo (Kennedy)
Color Purple, The (Walker)
Columbian Exposition (Chicago)
Combahee River Collective
Commission on the Status of Women
Common Differences (Joseph and Lewis)
Cone, James
“consciousness raising” (CR) groups
Cooper, Anna Julia
Coppin, Fannie Jackson
Cornwall, Anita
Couch, Beatriz Melano
Coward, Rosalind
Crisis (journal)
Cuvier, George
D
Daly, Mary
Daring to Be Bad (Echols)
Dash, Leon
Davis, Angela
Degler, Carl
Delphy, Christine
Delta Sigma Theta sorority
de Veaux, Alexis
Digable Planets
Diggs, Irene
Dill, Bonnie Thornton
Dix, Carl
“Double Jeopardy” (Beale)
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass, Grace Bustill
Douglass, Sarah Mapps
Dr. Dre
Dreyfus trial
Drucker, Ernest
DuBois, Ellen Carol
Du Bois, William E.B.
Dunayevskaya, Raya
Dunbar, Paul Lawrence
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
E
Early, Gerald
Early, Sarah Woodson
Eastwood, Mary O.
Ebony
Echols, Alice
economics. See labor and economic issues
Edelin, Kenneth
Ehrlich, Carol
Eichelberger, Brenda
Eisenstein, Zillah
Elaw, Zilpha
Emecheta, Buchi
Engels, Friedrich
Equal Rights Amendment
Equal Rights Association
F
Faderman, Lillian
Fanon, Frantz
Farakhan, Louis
Farmer, James
Faucet, Jessie
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
Feminist Party
Fields, Barbara
Fine, Michelle
Firestone, Shulamith
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
Foote, Julia A.J.
For Colored Girls. . . (Shange)
Forde, Daryll
Fortune, T. Thomas
Foster, Frances Smith
Fouque, Antoinette
Frazier, Demita
Frazier, E. Franklin
Freedom
Freeman
Freire, Paulo
Friedan, Betty
Fritz, Leah
Fuller, Meta Warwick
G
Gage, Frances D.
Garcia, Inez
Garner, Margaret
Garrison, William Lloyd
Garvey, Amy Jacques
Garvey, Marcus
Giddings, Paula
Gilkes, Cheryl
Gilligan, Carol
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Give Us Each Day (Dunbar-Nelson)
Gold, Edwin M.
Gold Coast Leader
Goldman, Emma
Goldman, Ronald
Goldmark, Carl
Gompers, Samuel
Gordon, Linda
Grahn, Judy
Grandy, Moses
Grant, Jacqueline
Griaule, Michel
Griffin, Susan
Grimke, Angelina Weld
Grimke, Charlotte Forten
Gross, Jane
Guinier, Lani
H
Hacker, Helen
Haden, Patricia
Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Hammonds, Evelynn
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harding, Sandra
Hare, Nathan and Julia
Harlem Renaissance
Harley, Sharon
Harper, Frances E.W.
Harper-Bolton, Charlyn A.
Hayden, Casey
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold
Hellman, Lillian
Hernandez, Aileen
Herskovits, Melville J.
Higginbotham, Elizabeth
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks
Hill, Anita
Hine, Darlene Clark
Hip Hop culture
Hofstadter, Richard
Holiday, Billie
Home Girls (Smith)
homophobia
hooks, bell
Hoover, Theressa
Hopkins, Pauline
Hopkins, Velma
Hose, Sam
Hottentot Venus
“How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping” (Burroughs)
Hughes, Langston
Hull, Gloria T.
Hurston, Zora Neale
I
Ice Cube
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs)
Independent
infanticide
Ingram, Rosa Lee
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (Walker)
International Council of Women of the Darker Races
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
J
Jacks, John
Jackson, Ada B.
Jackson, George
Jackson, Jacquelyne
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson State College
Jacobs, Harriet
Jamal, Hakim
James, C.L.R.
“Jane Crow and the Law” (Murray)
Johnson, Buzz
Johnson, Georgia Douglas
Johnson, Helene
Jones, Claudia
Jones, Dora
Jones, James
Jordan, June
Joseph, Gloria
Journal of Black Studies
Journal of Negro History
K
Kanuhua, Valli
Karenga, M. Ron
Keckley, Elizabeth
Kelley, Robin D.G.
Kennedy, Florynce “Flo,”
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kilson, Robin
King, Amanda
King, Coretta Scott
King, Deborah K.
King, Martin Luther
King, Mary
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press
Koedt, Anne
Kollias, Karen
Ku Klux Klan
L
labor and economic issues
Ladner, Joyce
Larsen, Nella
La Rue, Linda
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Lee, Jarena
Lee, Paul
Lee, Spike
Lennon, John
Lerner, Gerda
lesbian leadership and issues See also specific writers and organizations
Levine, Lawrence
Lewis, Diane K.
Lewis, Jill
Lewter, Nicholas
liberation theology
Liberator
Lincoln, C. Eric
Lincoln, Mabel
Little, Joan
Locke, Alain
Lombrosco, Cesare
Lorde, Audre
Luckmann, Thomas
Lure and Loathing (Early)
Lynch, Acklyn
lynchings
M
Mabee, Carleton
McDougald, Elise Johnson
McKay, Nellie
McPherson, Pat
Major, Naima
Malcolm X
Mallard, Amy
Mannheim, Karl
Marable, Manning
Marx and Marxist perspectives. See also labor and economic issues
matriarchy myth
Matthews, Tracye
Maurrasse, David
Mbiti, John
M.C. Lyte
Meitner, Lisa
Memphis Free Speech
Messenger, The
Meyer, Agnes E.
Middleton, Donna
Millett, Kate
Minnich, Elizabeth
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mistral, Gabrielle
Mitchell, Henry
Mittlefehldt, Pamela
Mohanty, Chandra Talapado
Moore, Basil
Moraga, Cherie
Moraga, Cherrie
Morgan, Robin
Morgen, Sandra
Morris, Aldon
Morrison, Toni
Mossell, Gertrude Bustill
Mott, Lucretia
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Ms magazine
M St. High School
Mudimbe, V.Y.
Murray, Margaret
Murray, Pauli
N
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
National Association of Wage Earners
National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO)
National Black Theatre
National Black Women’s Health Project (NBWHP)
National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gay Men
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
National Committee of Black Churchmen
National Federation of Afro-American Women
nationalism
National Organization of Women (NOW)
National Training School for Women and Girls
National Urban League, it
National Welfare Rights Organization
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
Nation of Islam
Negro World
Nelson, Hannah
Nemiroff, Jewell
Nemiroff, Robert
New Negro Movement
New York Radical Feminists
New York Times
Noble, Jeanne
Nobles, Wade
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
Ntwasa, Sabelo
O
Oberlin College
Omolade, Barbara
Opportunity
Ousmane, Sembene
P
Painter, Nell
Pan-Africanism
Pankhurst, Jessie W.
Parker, Pat
Parks, Rosa
Parmar, Pratibha
Parsons, Lucy
Patterson, Mary Jane
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Phillis Wheatley Homes
Pittsburgh Courier
Plantation Negro as Freeman (Bruce)
Polatnick, M. Rivka
Ports, Suki
Prostitute and the Normal Woman, The (Lombrosco)
Public Enemy
Q
Queen Latifah
R
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.
Radical Women
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry)
Randolph, A. Philip
Ransby, Barbara
rape
rap music
Reagon, Bernice Johnson
“Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves” (Davis)
religion and churchwomen
Remond, Charles
Rich, Adrienne
Richardson, Gloria
Richardson, Marilyn
Richie, Beth E.
Righteous Discontent (Higginbotham)
Ringgold, Faith
Robeson, Eslande Goode
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Jo Ann
Robinson, Patricia
Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith
Robinson, Therese
Rodin, Auguste
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Ruffin, Josephine St. Pierre
Rushing, Andrea Benton
S
SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women
Salaam, Kalamu ya
Salt ’n Peppa
Sanchez, Sonia
Sands, Aimee
Sanger, Margaret
Sapphire Sapphos
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Schooling in Capitalist America (Bowles and Gintis)
Schulter, Diane
Scott, Ann Firor
Scott, Kesho Yvonne
Scott, Patricia Bell
Second Sex, The (Beauvoir)
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Senghor, Leopold
sexuality. See also rape
Shabazz, Betty
Shange, Ntozake
Shays, Ruth
Simkins, Modjeska
Simpson, Nicole Brown
Simpson, O.J.
Sims, J. Marion
Sisterhood Is Powerful (Morgan)
Sister Outsider (Lorde)
Sistren collective
slavery
Sloan, Margaret
Smith, Althea
Smith, Amanda Berry
Smith, Barbara
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Beverly
Smith, Christine C.
Smith, Dorothy
Smith, Moranda
Smitherman, Geneva
Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought, The (Mohanty)
Soul on Ice (Cleaver)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Spear, Alan H.
Spencer, Anne
Spencer, Jon Michael
Spillers, Hortense
Spock, Benjamin
Stambler, Sookie
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Staples, Robert
Steady, Filomina Chioma
Steinburg, Janet
sterilization
Stewart, Abigail
Stewart, Maria Miller
Stone, Lucy
Stone, Pauline Terrelonge
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
suffrage movement
Superfly (film)
Survey Graphic
Sweet Honey in the Rock
T
Tanner, Benjamin
Tanner, Leslie
Tate, Claudia
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn
Terrell, Mary Church
Terrelonge, Pauline
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
theology. See religion and churchwomen
Thiongo, Ngugi wa
Third World Women’s Alliance
Thomas, Clarence
Tillery, Linda
Toure, Sekou
Townes, Emily
Trenton Six
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
U
Unbought and Unbossed (Chisholm)
unions. See labor and economic
issues
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Urquiza, Consuelo
V
Vietnam War
Village Voice
violence against women
Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, A (Cooper)
Voice of the Negro
Voices from Women’s Liberation (Tanner)
W
Wakefield, Rosa
Walker, Alice
Wallace, Maggie
Wallace, Michele
Ward, Samuel Ringgold
Ware, Caroline F.
Ware, Cellestine
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Mary Helen
Washington Eagle
Watkins, Mary
Weathers, Mary Ann
Weems, Renita
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
Weltfish, Gene
West, Cornel
West, Dorothy
Westhoff, Charles F.
Wheatley, Phyllis
When and Where I Enter (Giddings)
When Children Want Children (Dash)
White, Deborah Gray
White, E. Frances
White, Evelyn C.
White, Nancy
White, Ryan
Wilberforce University
Williams, Delores
Williams, Fannie Barrier
Williams, Rose
womanism
Women, Race, and Class (Davis)
Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (Terborg-Penn et al.)
Women of Color Institute
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
women’s club movement
Women’s Era
women’s liberation movement. See also specific writers
Women’s Trade Union League
Women Wage Earners Association
Woodson, Carter G.
Woolf, Virginia
Working Women’s Association
Work of the Afro-American Woman, The (Mossell)
World’s Anti-Slavery Convention (1840)
Wright, Doris
Wright, Nathan
Y
Yanagisako, Sylvia
Z
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Lorde)
a Barbara Welter, “The Cult of True Womanhood,” American Quarterly 18 (Summer 1966), 151.
b Today, in the rural sections of the South, especially on the remnants of the old plantations, one finds households where old grandmothers rule their daughters, sons, and grand-children with a matriarchal authority.
c Salpingectomy: Through an abdominal incision, the surgeon cuts both fallopian tubes and ties off the separated ends, after which act there is no way for the egg to pass from the ovary to the womb.
d I would like to give particular acknowledgment to the Combahee River Collective’s “A Black Feminist Statement.” Because this document espouses “struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression,” it has become a manifesto of radical feminist thought, action, and practice.
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