The first national Black women scholars’ conference centered the public defamation of Black womanhood.

Evidence

In the cold of the Boston-area winter, these women came blazing about the public dishonor of Black welfare mothers, of Anita Hill, of Sister Souljah, of three of Clinton’s failed appointments (Johnetta Cole, Lani Guinier, and Joyce-lyn Elders): of the Black woman. Some of the attendees had signed the Times advertisement defending Anita Hill in November 1991. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1128

Categorization

• QUESTION: Would be worth tracing the trajectory from this 1994 conference to how academic Black women’s scholarship on representation was received in later decades — did this organizing change anything?