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=== Black feminism has been around since the time of slavery. If defined as a way that black women have sought to understand their position within systems of oppression then this is exemplified in Sojourner Truth's famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?", which was delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. Truth addressed how the issues being discussed at the convention were issues that primarily impacted white women. Some feminists that were exhibiting major attempts for change at the turn of the century were Ida B. Wells, a politically driven activist, and Zora Neale Hurston, a prolific writer of African American culture. Ida B. Wells became famous after she fought to find the truth about the lynching of black men. One of Zora Neale Hurston's most notable contributions was her depiction of a strong female lead in her works in the form of Janie Crawford from her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", which altered the public's perception on black women at the time. The book A Voice from the South (1892) by Anna Julia Cooper has been credited as one of the first pieces of literature that expresses a black feminist perspective. Several other texts have been published since that have expressed the evolution of these ideas; one of the keystone pieces within the modern black feminist movement being Women, Race, and Class (1981) written by activist and cultural critic, Angela Davis. Kimberlé Crenshaw, a prominent feminist law theorist, gave the idea the name intersectionality in 1986–1987 as part of her work in anti-discrimination law, as part of describing the effects of compound discrimination against black women. ===