Published in tandem with the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, this Sourcebook republishes an array of rare and little-known documents from the period by artists, writers, and cultural critics, demonstrating the diversity of black women's engagement with art and politics during this period.

Foreword / Anne Pasternak  10
Acknowledgments  12
Revolutionary Hope: Landmark Writings, 1965-85 / Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley  16
Spiral, the Black Arts Movement, and "Where We At" Black Women Artists / Connie H. Choi  26
1. Why Spiral? (1966) / Jeanne Siegel  33
2. Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation (1969) / Larry Neal  39
3. Africobra: African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, 10 in Search of a Nation (1970) / Jeff Donaldson  52
4. "Where We At" Black Women Artists (1972) / Kay Brown  62
Race and Women's Liberation / Rujeko Hockley  66
5. An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as Revolutionary Force (1969) / Mary Ann Weathers  70
6. What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib (1971) / Toni Morrison  75
7. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South (1974) / Alice Walker  84
8. Black Feminism: A New Mandate (1974) / Margaret Sloan  94
9. A Litany for Survival (1978) / Audre Lorde  99
Faith Ringgold's Radical Activism / Catherine Morris  100
10. For the Women's House: Interview with Faith Ringgold (1972) / Michele Wallace  104
Collective Artist Actions in New York / Carmen Hermo  114
11. The Demands of Art Workers Coalition (1969) / Art Workers' Coalition  120
12. To the Viewing Public for the 1970 Whitney Annual Exhibition (undated) / Women Artists in Revolution, Women's Ad Hoc Committee, and Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation  122
13, Letter of withdrawal from Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971 (1971) / John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson, Joe Overstreet, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt and William T. Williams  124
14. Letter in defense of the Judson Three (1971) / Flo Kennedy, Gerald Lefcourt, and Robert Pojanksy  126
15. Letter of support of the Judson Threet (1971) / The Committee to Defend the Judson Three  128
16. Color Scheming (1981) / Lucy R. Lippard  130
Just Above the Midtown Gallery / Rujeko Hockley  134
17. Letter to her parents (1967) / Linda Goode Bryant  139
18. Cover artwork (undated) for Black Currant 1, no. 1 (May 1982) / Janet Henry  144
19. B Culture 1, no. 1 (1986) / Greg Tate and Craig Dennis Street  146
20. Interview with Linda Goode Bryant (1994) / Tony Whitfield  148
Senga Nengudi's Freeway Fets / Rujeko Hockley  166
21. Announcement card for Freeway Fets (1978) / Senga Nengudi  170
The Combahee River Collective / Rujeko Hockley  172
22. A Black Feminist Statement (1977) / The Combahee River Collective  176
Struggling for Diversity in Heresies / Catherine Morris  184
23. Letters between Combahee River Collective and Heresies Lesbian Issue Collective n "Women's Traditional Arts—The Politics of Aesthetics," Heresies, issue 4 (1978)  188
24. Third World Women Speak (1978) / Lowery Stokes Sims  190
25. Editorial Statement in "Third World Women—The Politics of Being Other," Heresies, issue 8 (1979) / Lula Mae Blocton, Yvonne Flowers, Valerie Harris, Zarina Hashmi, Virginia Jaramillo, Dawn Russell, and Naeemah Shabazz  194
26. Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Goes to the New Museum, in "The Women's Pages," Heresies, issue 14 (1982) / Lorraine O'Grady  197
27. Editorial Statement and Heresies Collective Statement in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Vivian E. Browne, Cynthia Carr, Michele Godwin, Hattie Gossett, Carole Gregory, Sue Heinemann, Lucy R. Lippard, May Stevens, Cecilia Vicuña, and Sylvia Witts Vitale  198
28. Some Do's and Don'ts for Black Women Artists in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Emma Amos  205
29. Untitled, in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Lorna Simpson  206
30. Black Dreams in "Racism Is the Issue," Heresies, issue 15 (1982) / Lorraine O'Grady  208
Ana Mendieta's Dialectics of Isolation / Stephanie Weissberg  210
31. Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States, excerpts (1980)
Introduction / Ana Mendiata  214
Artist's Statement / Beverly Buchanan  216
Artist's Statement / Janet Henry  218
Artist's Statement / Senga Nengudi  220
Artist's Statment / Howardena Pindell  222
32. On Making a Video—Free, White and 21 (1992) / Howardena Pindell  224
Gender Politics at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Sexual Identity / Carmen Hermo  230
33. Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers (1981) / Gloria Anzaldúa  234
34. Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde (1984) / James Baldwin and Audre Lorde  242
The Eighties / Rujeko Hockley  252
35. Art (World) & Racism: Testimony, Documentation and Statistics (1987) / Howardena Pindell  257
36. Confession—Filming Family: An Interview with Artist and Filmmaker Camille Billips (1996) / bell hooks  292
37. Photo spread of Rodeo Caldonia (1987)  300
38. She Came with the Rodeo (1994) / Lisa Jones  302
Sources  314
Copyright Credits  316
Artists in the Exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85  317
Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees  318