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Harris, Duchess. "From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism From 1960 to 1980," American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, May 1997.
This dissertation compares the agenda of the Black women who were appointed to President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women to the Black women in the National Black Feminist Organization and the Combahee River Collective. I document the relatively liberal and univocal focus on gender of the Presidential Commission to the more and polyvocal focus on gender, race, sexuality, and class of the Combahee River Collective. The latter groups existed as a result of the efforts of the earlier ones and there was overlap in membership. I assert that understanding their history helps us to understand Black feminism today.
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