While intersectionality is increasingly an object of inquiry in social movement research, few scholars examine leadership’s role in enabling intersectional mobilization. This article draws on data from archives and in-depth interviews (n = 18) to explore the importance of leadership succession in transforming the Chicago Abortion Fund between 1985–2015. Specifically, it explores two types of succession: (1) from grassroots or community-embedded leadership to bridge leadership (which connects the community to the organization), and (2) from bridge to formal leadership. Our study shows how these two types of succession were instrumental in operationalizing margins-to-center organizing. We present our findings in a series of conjunctures or episodes to elucidate how Black women and women of color moved gradually through different forms of leadership. In so doing, they changed the framing and praxis of the organization from a social service agency to a radical reproductive-justice social movement organization.

在社会运动研究中，交叉性日益成为研究的对象，但很少有学者研究领导者在实现交叉动员中的作用。本文利用档案资料和深入访谈（n = 18）中的数据来探讨领导层继任在1985-2015年间转变芝加哥堕胎基金的重要性。具体来说，它探讨了两种类型的继任：（1）从基层或嵌入社区的领导到过渡的领导（将社区连接到组织），以及（2）从过渡到正式的领导。我们的研究表明，这两种类型的继任如何有助于实施边际至中心组织。我们通过一系列的结局或情节介绍我们的发现，以阐明黑人妇女和有色妇女如何通过不同形式的领导逐渐发展。