Second-wave feminism excluded Black women’s liberation as irrelevant

Evidence

On August 25, 1970, Frances Beal and her sisters in the newly renamed Third World Women’s Alliance showed up with their placards (“Hands Off Angela Davis”), joining more than 20,000 feminists at the National Organization for Women (NOW) Strike for Equality in New York. Seeing the Beal poster, a NOW official rushed over and snapped, “Angela Davis has nothing to do with women’s liberation.” Beal snapped back, “It has nothing to do with the kind of liberation you’re talking about. But it has everything to do with the kind of liberation we’re talking about.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1041

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in placing any argument about race into Kendi’s three-way scheme — NOW’s mainstream feminism here is an assimilationist/siloed move that discounts race. — connects to: The feminist appeal to sisterhood ignored racism’s history, alienating black women — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 196