#APeoplesJourney: African American Women and the Struggle for Equality

February 20, 2023 Pharaoh

African American women have always been part of the African American struggle for full equality. Learn how early freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Anna Julia Cooper fought against multiple oppressions. Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw explains how the intersections of these oppressions manifest today in the term she coined, “intersectionality.” Voiced by Jouelzy and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. #HiddenHerstory

Credits:

Narration by Jouelzy

Music by Jamila Woods

“Ain’t I a Woman?” ©Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City IA

“Demonstrators Are Arrested and Carried to a Police Van
for Transport to the Chapel Hill Jail,” Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History and Culture, Gift of James H
Wallace Jr, © Jim Wallace

“The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963“ Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James H Wallace Jr., ©Jim Wallace

“Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, CA, No. 62” Collection of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Pirkle Jones Foundation, ©2011 Pirkle Jones Foundation

Untitled Angela Davis Photo, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives, ©Milton Williams