African American women had to endure the threat and the practice ... passed down skills which allowed them to supplement their poor diet and inadequate medical care with hunting, fishing ...

Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded ...

Just five years later, President Lyndon Johnson established federal funding of birth control for the poor. Although ... Under slavery, African American women were encouraged to have children ...