As Alice Walker recalled, "And we talked and we discussed and we sang for Shirley Chisholm and clapped for Eleanor Homes Norton and tried to follow Margaret Sloan's lyrics and cheered Flo Kennedy's anecdotes. And we laughed a lot and argued some. And had a very good time." – Beverly Davis, To Seize the Moment: A Retrospective on the National Black Feminist Organization (p. 44, 1988).
Read More“In a 1974 report to Ms. Magazine on the founding of the National Black Feminist Organization, Margaret Sloan, the organization’s only president, describes how a three-hour discussion unexpectedly continued on well into the night: ‘We listened. We laughed. We interrupted each other, not out of disrespect, but out of that immediate identification with those words and feeling that we had each said and felt…many times alone. We had all felt guilty and crazy about our beliefs. And yet, all those things that have divided Black women from each other in the past, kept us from getting to that room sooner, seemed not to be important” (Springer, 2005, p. 50).
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