TWWA
How did TWWA begin?
When the Puerto Rican Socialist Party requested to join.
What essay did Beal publish?
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female
What does Triple Jeopardy stand for?
Race, Gender, and Class
What year did SNCC vote to create BWLC
1968
This is the author of "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female"
Who is Frances Beal?
TWWA was founded in response to what?
Misogyny in the American Civil Rights Movement and racism in the Women's Liberation Movement.
Which committee did Beal serve on in SNCC?
National Black Anti-War Anti-Draft Union
What position did Beal say the U.S. regulated Black women to?
Slave of a Slave
After separating from SNCC, what name did they adopt?
Black Women's Association
This legal scholar coined the term "intersectionality" in 1989
Who is Kimberlé Crenshaw?
What does the term "Third World" mean?
People from non-white countries and their descendants.
How did Beal become more involved in activism?
Motivated by the death of Emmett Till to engage in social activism as a teenager.
Which groups used double jeopardy, and which group used triple jeopardy?
Double Jeopardy was BWA; Triple Jeopardy was TWWA
Why did some members of SNCC not approve of the rights they were focusing on?
Some members opposed Black women's access to abortion. Thought of as "Black genocide"
Her defense effort partnered with the TWWA to raise money for trial.
Hint : we've read an article by her already
Who is Angela Davis?
What is the name of the Black feminist group that TWWA inspired?
What is The Combahee River Collective?
Beal organised for this leader's talk in Paris during his international tour
Who is Malcolm X?
Who coined the term intersectionality?
Kimberle Crenshaw
What ethos did SNCC adopt from BWLC?
Double Jeopardy
____ and Angela Davis were the names featuring on the 1972 Triple Jeopardy cover
Who is Lolita Lebron?
The TWWA argued that this was necessary for the "third world woman" beyond reform?
What is Revolution?
Beal argued that this approach to activism separates the experience of being Black and a woman.
What is essentialism?
Which case was rejected by the court because they examined it with a single-axis framework?
DeGraffenreid v General Motors
The BWLC succesfully curated spaces to foster this ideology
What is Black feminist consciousness?
These activists, inspired by TWWA, founded another black feminist organisation called the Combahee River Collective.
Who are Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, and Demita Frazier?