Fractals: A Black Feminist Organizing and Movement Building Timeline

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1961

Key People

Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) was a playwright and writer. Hansberry was the first Black person to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun (1961), highlights the lives of Black people living under racial segregation in Chicago.

1913

Woman Suffrage March

“We Don’t Live Singl...

Black Lives Matter

Nanny of the Maroons

The Seneca Falls Convention

“Ain’t I a Woman?...

Sojourner Truth

Wilberforce University

Combahee River Raid

Ball Culture and Community

Atlanta Washerwomen Strike

Formation of Social and Politica...

Frances E. W. Harper

Lifting as We Climb

Mary Church Terrell

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Literary and Industrial Training...

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc....

The Great Migration

Harlem Renaissance

Amy Jacques Garvey

Anna Julia Cooper

Igbo Women’s War

The Great Depression

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Mary McLeod Bethune Appointed by...

Pauli Murray Enrolls in Howard U...

Justice for Recy Taylor

The Rosa Lee Ingram Case

An End to the Neglect of the Pro...

Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson

Sojourners for Truth and Justice

Mother Netti Hunt and Daughter N...

Georgia Gilmore

Laura Mae Dixie

Women’s March in Pretoria

Bennett College

Lorraine Hansberry

Ruby Doris Smith Robinson

Black Is Beautiful

Fannie Lou Hamer

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Speech ...

Black Arts Movement

The Moynihan Report

Black Panther Party

Compton’s Cafeteria Riot

Consciousness Raising

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and...

Marsha P. Johnson

Childcare Access

Comparative Women’s Studies at S...

Louise Thompson Patterson

My Body, My Choice

Patricia Hill Collins

Florynce “Flo” Kennedy

Johnnie Tillmon

Shirley Chisholm

National Black Feminist Organiza...

The Joan Little Campaign

“For Colored Girls,”...

Combahee River Collective Statement

Black Macho and the Myth of the ...

“Uses of the Erotic,”...

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Kitchen Table Press

Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks

Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde

Hortense Spillers

Prison Abolition

Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole

Intersectionality

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Black Maternal and Infant Mortality

Women of Color Resource Center

Black LGBTQ Pride

Elsa Barkley Brown

1994 Crime Bill

Black Women in the Academy: Defe...

African American Agenda 2000

Critical Resistance

The Million Women March

Black Feminist Caucus of the Bla...

When Chickenheads Come Home to R...

INCITE! Women of Color Against V...

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela ...

“Tip Drill”/Take Bac...

Brittney Cooper

Crunk Feminist Collective

Hurricane Katrina

When and Where I Enter, by Paula...

Ella’s Daughters

E. Frances White

Kai Lumumba Barrow

At the Dark End of the Street, b...

Sister Citizen, by Melissa V. Ha...

The Violence Matrix

CeCe McDonald’s Plea Barga...

BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100)

Charlene Carruthers

Patient: Poems, by Bettina Judd

Beyoncé Feminism

Pushout, by Monique W. Morris

The Congressional Caucus on Blac...

Black Women’s Truth and Re...

Black Mama’s Bail Out

The Tambourine Army

March for Black Women

Cite Black Women

Unapologetic, by Charlene Carrut...

Black Feminist Disability Framework

Black Feminist Organizing Schools

Transgender Self-Defense

Visibility of Black Trans Women

Farah Jasmine Griffin

The Mothers of Gynecology: Anarc...

2022