Tag: Feminist: Pan-African struggle

NOVANEWS Pan-African News Wire Abayomi Azikiwe Women played an instrumental role in the formation of the Pan-African Movement and in the national liberation struggles. Inside Africa, women were at the forefront of the independence movement in the areas of mass mobilization, political education, armed struggle and national reconstruction. In the U.S., numerous women provided the impetus for the reemergence of the Civil Rights and Black Power struggles. By the 1880s the post-slavery institutionalization of national oppression and economic exploitation of people of African descent was well underway in the United States. Although a series of presidential orders, constitutional amendments and legislative measures enacted during 1862-1875 sought to breakdow...