Black Feminism reasons that sexism, class oppression, and racism are considered to be indescribably linked together. This is based off the insight that black women are not as recognized within social structures as individuals compared to the classification as white women. Race and Gender have a major impact on black women’s experiences in society and how it differs through economic class, within institutions and social relationships.

Critical Race Feminism is a term that derives from the movements of critical legal studies, critical race theory and the feminist theory. Critical race feminism practices using some of the framework that each of these movements focus on. It creates emphasis on class, race, and gender hierarchies, and most importantly the experiences of women of colour with regards to equality and treatment. This structure that Critical race feminism has developed made and impact on improving the lives of women of colour by seeking to understand the issues that are relevant in today’s society and finding possible solutions to these issues. ^[1]

The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACW) was formed in 1896 when there was a merge between the national federation of Afro-American Women and the Colored Women’s League of Washington. This association focused on the quality of home life, the economic, religious and social status, to ensure and protect African American rights, to make sure there is an interracial understanding and to educate others. As the daughter of the first black millionaire graduate of Oberlin College, Mary Church Terrell was the first president of NACW from 1896 to 1901 and in this time she supported racial and sexual equality based on rights discourse. Mary had realized that her class position carried responsibilities to her race, even though she was known of a well respectable and educated women because of her achievements and background it was also still common to see the larger part of the culture as ignorant, lazy and immoral.^[2]