The Combahee River Collective Statement
Date: 1977
Location: Boston, MA
Writer(s): Demita Frazier, Beverly Smith, Barbara Smith
Publisher: Kitchen Table: Women of Colo Press
Format: Printed Publication
Media: Paper, Ink
The Combahee River Collective is a Black feminist lesbian organization formed in 1974 until 1980 in Boston, MA. Their name comes from the raid that Harriet Tubman organized on the Combahee River on June 2, 1863, that freed more than 750 enslaved people. Their mission and statement addressed that both the white feminist movement and the Civil Rights Movement were not addressing their particular needs as Black women as well as Black lesbians.
