How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

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• The Combahee River Collective described its politics as Black feminist and socialist.

  • context · pp. 15–27 and 109–130

• Between 1974 and 1980, the Boston collective used political education and coalition organizing.

  • supports · pp. 109–130, interview with Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier

• The collective organized around reproductive freedom, health care, violence against women, and the 1979 murders of Black women in Boston.

  • supports · pp. 109–130, interview with Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier

• The Combahee River Collective is one bounded Black feminist socialist organization; its statement and practices do not define all Black feminism or later intersectionality.

  • supports · pp. 1–14 and 109–130