Women and the Black Power Movement: Crash Course Black American History #40

Women have been a powerful (and largely underappreciated) force in the movement for Black equality in the United States. The Black Power Movement is no exception to that trend. Today, we'll learn about how women contributed to several organizations, including the Black Panthers. We'll also explore how the Black Arts Movement served as a way for women to empower Black People through creative output.
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VIDEO SOURCES
● Cheryl Clarke, “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004).
● Ashley D. Farmer, Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
● Peniel E. Joseph ed., The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era (New York: Routledge, 2006).
Robyn C. Spencer, The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).
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Black Women are Great. And deserve so much more respect in the black community. because without us there would be no movement to speak of.

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I’m happy to say I heard Angela Davis speak at TESC in 2008 (maybe 2009). I wish I could remember who the guest speaker before her was, who gave a great talk about food deserts in POC communities… maybe I’ll look that up. I also want to give a shout out to one Civil Rights leader I had the fortune of meeting briefly, Reverend James Lawson, who should be looked up if or if not referenced on this series.

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Another fantastic episode! Thanks for highlighting how instrumental Black women were to the Black Power Movement -- and Black civil rights in general.

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thank you for including black women in these videos. much of my african american studies gloss over the efforts of black women.

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Thanks for this video! Black women rarely get any type of credit for the hard work they put into these movements

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good episode, so many important women in these movements go unacknowledged even as they help drive them forwards

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Amazing video about amazing Black women! I had the great fortune of seeing Angela Davis speak twice. Once at my college and once at my sister's college graduation.

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Not mentioned in this video is Claudia Jones, mainly because she'd been exiled to England for being a communist by the 60s. She was hugely influential on Malcolm X and others. She essentially pioneered the concept of intersectionality by explaining her struggles as someone who was black, a woman, and a worker. The book "Left of Karl Marx", a reference to her resting place (literally left of Marx) is about her life & works.

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