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Approved Paper/Presentation Topics
- Black women in the Abolitionist Movement and Underground Railroad (at least 4)
- Black women in the suffrage movement from 1820-1920 (at least 4)
- Black women in the struggle for the vote 1920-1965 (at least 4)
- Black women school and college founders 1870s-1950s (at least 3)
- Pioneering Black women Journalists and their campaigns (Shadd Carey, Wells Barnett, Bass etc.)
- Black Business women before 1950, the politics of Black women’s businesses (at least 3 include Maggie Walker and Madam C. J. Walker)
- Voices and activism of women in the Garvey Movement (at least 3)
- Black women’s left activism in the Communist and Socialist movements (at least 3)
- Black women in the Nation of Islam and other Muslim movements (at least 2)
- Black lesbian and Transgender women’s activism
- Black women leaders in Black Lives Matter, #Say Her Name, and the Movement 4 Black Lives
- Black Womanist Theologians
- Black women and Pan Africanism 1900- to the Free South Africa Movement
- Black women activists in state and federal politics, 1968—to the present (at least 4)
- Black women’s voices in the Prison abolition and Defund the Police movements (at least 3)
- Black feminists and womanists: theory and praxis. (at least 3)
- Black women’s activism in sports (at least 3 more than one sport)
- Black women’s protest poetry or music (at least 4 poets/musicians covering at least 2 different eras of protest)
- Black women labor organizers in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Black women voting rights activists since 1965 (at least 3)