 The final Statement was based on this collective discussion, and drafted by African-American activists Barbara Smith, Demita Frazier and Beverly Smith.The "Combahee River Collective Statement" is referred to as "among the most compelling documents produced by Black feminists", and Harriet Sigerman, author of "The Columbia Documentary History of American Women Since 1941" calls the solutions which the statement proposes to societal problems such as racial and sexual discrimination, homophobia and classist politics "multifaceted and interconnected.