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  • noun Plural form of foresister.

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  • Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Toni Cade Bambara, to name a few, are some of the early foresisters of the era.

    Irene Monroe: Not only "For Colored Girls" Irene Monroe 2010

  • Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, and Toni Cade Bambara, to name a few, are some of the early foresisters of the era.

    Irene Monroe: Not only "For Colored Girls" Irene Monroe 2010

  • The Dinner Party honors the the lives and contributions of 1,038 foresisters who, like virtually all women, have been erased from mainstream historical accounts.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

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