National Black Feminist Organization

…a breakaway group from the National Black Feminist Organization. After some disagreements with that organization’s failure to address class struggles faced by Black women, the group quickly became a coalition in its own right in 1974. According to Smith, the Combahee River Collective formed out of a desire to synthesize…

…activist groups such as the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), which was formed at the New York offices of NOW in 1973, and the Combahee River Collective, established in Boston in 1974. The latter group is a foundational Black feminist organization created by a group of African American socialist lesbians…