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2 unusual facts about Ernestine Eckstein


Ernestine Eckstein

BWOA was a San Francisco organization collectively co-founded in 1973 by fifteen women including Aileen Hernandez, Patsy Fulcher, and Eleanor Spikes.

Eckstein, like the founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton, saw the connection between the Black Civil Rights struggle for equality and the lesbian and gay struggle for equality and fostered the connection.



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