Black leaders were critical to the formation of the modern reproductive rights movement. Before the end of Black History Month, we should pause and remember some of the leaders who shaped the movement in the years before Roe v. Wade.
Author: Felicia Kornbluh
Dr. Felicia Kornbluh is a professor of history and of gender, sexuality and women's studies at the University of Vermont Burlington and the author of several books, including A WOMAN'S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE: My Mother, Her Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice, now available in paperback. (Grove Atlantic, January 2024), available for purchase now; Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective, with G. Mink (2018); and The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (2007). Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) at @VTFeminist.