National Black Feminist Organization

National Black Feminist Organization
Formation1973; 51 years ago (1973)
Dissolved1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Region
United States

The National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) was founded in 1973. The group worked to address the unique issues affecting black women in America.[1] Founding members included Florynce Kennedy, Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold, Doris Wright and Margaret Sloan-Hunter. They borrowed the office of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women. According to Wallace, a contributing author to the anthology All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, Wright "called (the first) meeting to discuss Black women and their relationship to the Feminist Movement."[2][3]

  1. ^ Wilma Pearl Mankiller. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin Books, 1998 ISBN 0-618-00182-4, p203
  2. ^ Hull, Scott, Smith. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, The Feminist Press, 2003, ISBN 0-912670-95-9, p12
  3. ^ "To Hell and Back", Dark Designs and Visual Culture, Duke University Press, pp. 95–110, 2004, doi:10.1215/9780822386353-005, ISBN 978-0-8223-3427-9