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Black power, the women’s movement, and feminist organizations like the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) and the Combahee River Collective all contributed to the emergence of a new voice for Black women in American politics and social life in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Harris, D. (2019). A History of Black American Feminism. In: Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95456-1_2
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