ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974. It focuses on four major topics: the genesis of contemporary Black feminism; what one believe, that is, the specific province of their politics; the problems in organizing Black feminists, including a brief Black women story of the collective; and Black feminist issues and practice. The most general statement of their politics are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression, and their particular task is the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking. The Combahee River Collective was a Black feminist group in Boston whose name came from the guerrilla action conceptualized and led by Harriet Tubman on June 2,1863, in the Port Royal region of South Carolina. This action freed more than 750 slaves and the only military campaign in American history planned and led by a woman.
