The Injustices of Rape

From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and women’s liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape. These activists challenged the dominant legal and social discourses of the day and redefined the political agenda on sexual violence for over three decades. How activists framed sexual violence — as either racial injustice, gender injustice, or both — was based in their respective frameworks of oppression. The dominant discourse of the black free