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Fifty Years Ago, the Combahee River Collective Wrote the Blueprint for Black Feminism. How Far Have We Come?

The Combahee River Collective disbanded in 1980, but their emphasis on a written record helped the collective’s work find a home within academia, contributing to its continued popularity. In the ...
The Nation

“If Black Women Were Free”: An Oral History of the Combahee River Collective

“Here we are, a group of Black lesbian feminist anti-imperialist anti-capitalists trying to do the right thing.” The Combahee River Collective in 1974. Left to right bottom: Demita Frazier and Helen ...
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‘Picturing Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid’ exhibit on display at Gibbes Museum

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A new exhibition on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston honors work detailing Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid. The “Picturing Freedom: ...
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Edda Fields-Black Wins Pulitzer For Groundbreaking Book On Harriet Tubman's Combahee River Raid

Edda Fields-Black was announced as the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her book "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War." For her work in history, ...
The Boston Globe

The American historian’s account presents enslaved people as agents of change, not passive victims awaiting white saviors

On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman led three hundred Black soldiers from the 2nd South Carolina Volunteer Regiment up the Combahee River in South Carolina to destroy an essential bridge, raid plantations ...