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The emergence of the women’s movement was untimely for Black women in general, but for a select group it was relevant. Black women, who had largely been left out of civil rights politics and, especially, leadership, hoped, if only briefly, that they would be able to stake a place within the women’s movement where they could promote their concerns as people who were both female and Black.
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Harris, D. (2019). The ’90s in Context: A History of Black Women in American Politics. In: Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95456-1_4
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