Given her activist efforts and role as cofounder of several support groups for black women artists, in

the 1970s, the artist Faith Ringgold became the ideal candidate to help spearhead the gender crusade in

the USA. Woman Freedom Now was one of a series

of Ringgold’s advocacy placards, a design which writer and activist Amiri Baraka has christened a “modern classic” because it was one of the first works of graphic design to endorse feminism within the context of black liberation.