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New Women's Times newspaper spread, with a picture of banner-carrying women: "3rd world women we cannot live without our lives."
Combahee River Collective featured in New Women's Times.

The Combahee River Collective is founded in Boston.

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Combahee River Collective featured in New Women's Times.

This collective of Black feminists and lesbians split off from the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), and name themselves after the Combahee River, where Harriet Tubman freed 750 enslaved Black people in a raid in 1863.

They hold a particular nexus of politics at the intersection of gender, race, class, and socialism, which they feel other Black liberation movements are not fully representing.

They will go on to write the seminal Combahee River Collective Statement, which is one of the first documents to critically explore the intersections between feminism, racism, socialism, and sexism at the forefront of liberation struggles.