Ep.63: Sojourners For Truth and Justice

Sojourners for Truth and Justice was a 1951 group of 14 Black women leaders that issued a “call” to all American Black women to meet the Sojourners in Washington DC to march, air their grievances and demand an end to Jim Crow.  The group was inspired by Beah Richards’ poem “A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, of White Supremacy, of Peace” and printed their “demand”, “A Call to Negro Women”, in newspapers for all American Black women to read.  Scholars today refer to this as the birth of Black Leftist Feminism.  Listen, learn then activate!