Women of Color Resource Center

The Women of Color Resource Center was founded in 1990 by Linda Burnham, Caroline Guilartes, Jung Hee Choi, Angela Davis, Derethia DuVal, Chris Lymbertos, Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, Margo Okazawa-Rey and Cindy Wiesner.;[1] Burnham served as its Executive Director for 18 years.[2][3] It includes five objectives: Women's Human Rights, Popular Education, Welfare, Peace and Justice, and Sisters of Fire. Women of Color Resource Center's Mission reads:

Mission

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice perspective that takes into account the status of women internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.[4] This center not only focuses on a certain activism but a range of problems that usually affect the minorities, as well as the welfare public.[5]

Linda Burnham (1948- Present)

Linda Burnham is an African American activist. She is known to focus a lot on women's rights, racial and social justice as well as political.[6] She was raised and born in New York, to an activist as well. She was enlightened by what her mother was doing and then decided to follow and do some activism of her own. Along with Women of Color Resource Center she has also done other form of activism. She was a planner for other sites including The Black Scholar. She continues to coordinate many other committees and has as well written Home Economics . She resides in her home in the Bay Area.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Linda Burnham - KeyWiki". keywiki.org. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  2. "1% Feminism". openDemocracy. 29 August 2015.
  3. "Linda Burnham — She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  4. "Women of Color Resource Center". Changing The Present. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  5. College, Smith (October 27, 2006). "Women of Color Resource Center Records, 1984-2011". Five College Archives and Manuscript Collections.
  6. "Linda Burnham". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  7. "Linda Burnham - KeyWiki". keywiki.org. Retrieved 2018-04-06.

Sources
  • Alkalimat, Abdul. The African American Experience in Cyberspace. Pluto Press, 2004.


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