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Black Feminist Organizations

A DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF COLLECTIONS

  • All Organizations
    • Black Women Organized for Action
      • BWOA Documents
      • BWOA Oral Histories
    • Combahee River Collective
    • National Alliance of Black Feminists
    • National Black Feminist Organization
    • The Third World Women’s Alliance
The Black Feminist Organizations Digital Archive collects and describes materials related to black feminist organizations active in the U.S. from 1968 to roughly 1980.

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More about Black Feminist Organizations

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Credits and thanks

Massive thanks to

Lindsay Wallace, Head Scanner (and writer, funny person, friend of the archive)

The Barnard Digital Humanities Center, Summer Institute Fellowship, 2019

Articles using these archives

Springer, Kimberly. “Good Times for Florida and Black Feminism.” Cercles 8 (2003): 122-135

Springer, Kimberly. “The Interstitial Politics of Black Feminist Organizations.” Meridians 1 March 2001; 1 (2): 155–191. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-1.2.155

Collections and Archives

Brenda Eichelberger / National Alliance of Black Feminists’ Papers

  • Chicago History Museum
  • Chicago Public Library

 

Third World Women’s Alliance / Bay Area Chapter Papers

  • Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History

 

Third World Women’s Alliance / Triple Jeopardy newsletters online

  • Independent Voices open access collection of an alternative press

 

Aileen C. Hernandez Papers

  • Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History

About the archivist

Kimberly Springer is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Curator for the Oral History Archives at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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She holds a master’s of information science, specializing in archives, preservation and social computing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Springer obtained her doctorate from the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

Her research, teaching and publishing areas are social movement, cultural studies, born-digital materials, and social media as they intersect with race, gender, and sexuality.

Kimberly’s publications include Living for the Revolution, Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 (Duke University Press, 2005), Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African-American Women’s Contemporary Activism (New York University Press, 1999), Stories of Oprah: the Oprahfication of American Culture (University of Mississippi Press, 2010) and articles in several journals and edited volumes.

 

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