Reading “The Combahee River Collective Statement” helped me understand the oppression that black women have been facing for decades. The Combahee River Collective Statement is a group consisting of Black feminists and have been together since 1974. They struggle against many topics like sexual, heterosexual, racial, and class oppression. There are many famous well known Black women activists like Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell, and Sojourner Truth. All these women have brought awareness to their sexual identity and racial identity in order to help the rest of these women struggling in their oppression. These women were a stepping stool to everyone else who was too scared of judgement for speaking out and fighting for liberation. There was a group of Black feminists called the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) created in 1973 and based in New York. Movements like Civil Rights, Black Panthers, and Black nationalism helped changed Black peoples lives based on their goals and ideas for these movements and what did they did in order the reach their goals. The oppression that Black women face doesn’t allow them to experience and learn new knowledge to help them grow as a person. This is unfair because no one should be restricted from broadening their knowledge and experiences in life. I agree that women are valuable and a necessity for the human life, therefore, we shouldn’t be treated otherwise. We can fight for our own oppression but it would also be helpful for men to want to help us and fight as well.