摘要：I first saw Angela Bowen on July 29th, 1979, in New Haven Connecticut at a Take Back the Night March on the New Haven Green. She followed the fiery American radical feminist activist and writer, Andrea Dworkin, best known for her analysis of pornography. Angela was the only Black woman to speak at the mostly white well-attended rally. I don't remember most of the details of Angela's speech, what I do remember was how taken I was with how she spoke to an audience. She brought us into her world.She spoke about how protective her two older brothers were of her three sisters growing up in Roxbury, Massachusetts during the 1940s and 50s. She talked about the experiencesof the girls and women she had known who experienced violence in their own homes. She was not the first Black feminist I met, but she was the first Black feminist I heard speak.I knew she was someone I would like to know more about..
