Black Feminism developed during the second wave of Feminism in the late 1960s. The movement, though directly connected with the feministic ideology, points to the engagement of African American`s women in every sphere of life. More importantly, the introduction of the term black feminism aims at discussing the similarities between black and white women`s movement towards emancipation and equality in global terms (Oesterreich, 2007). Apart from this argument, black women wanted to create a separate unity for, as Sadoff states, in spite of motherhood shared between black and white women, race keeps them apart because “racism, not gender or motherhood, oppresses the black woman” (1985). This view is shared by another researcher, Gerda Lerner,
