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Sojourners for Truth and Justice existed for a year and helped to articulate a Black Left Feminism that, in historian Erik S. McDuffie's words, "paid special attention to the intersectional, systemic nature of African-American women’s oppression and understood their struggle for dignity and freedom
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In 1951, a group of 14 African-American women leaders issued "a call to Negro women to convene in Washington, D.C. for a Sojourn for Truth and Justice" to protest government attacks on sociologist
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The Sojourners for Truth and Justice held their inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C., from September 29 - October 1, 1951. The 1951 founding of the group was inspired by a 1950 poem written by
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McDuffie, Erik S. (2008). "A "New Freedom Movement of Negro Women": Sojourning for Truth, Justice, and Human Rights during the Early Cold War"".
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leading movements throughout the early 1950s. "Erik S. McDuffie an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the
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was a radical civil rights organization led by African-American women from 1951 to 1952. It was led by activists such as
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Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
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Martin, Charles (July 1985). "Race, Gender, and Southern Justice: The Rosa Lee Ingram Case".
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In addition to their defense of prominent Black Left intellectuals and activists such as
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Sojourners for Truth and Justice provides us with deep insight on the impact that black
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Encyclopedia of the African diaspora : origins, experiences, and culture
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Encyclopedia of the African diaspora : origins, experiences, and culture
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whose passport had been confiscated by the Justice Department in 1950.
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Louise Thompson Patterson
Shirley Graham Du Bois
Charlotta Bass

W. E. B. Du Bois
Louise Thompson Patterson
social activist
Harlem Renaissance
Shirley Graham Du Bois
African-American
Charlotta Bass
American
civil rights
Beah Richards

Charlotta Bass

Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Charlotta Bass
Angie Dickerson
Shirley Graham Du Bois
Louise Thompson Patterson
Eslanda Goode Robeson

Shirley Graham Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
Claudia Jones
Alphaeus Hunton
Council on African Affairs

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