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To many women activists in the American Indian Movement, black Civil Rights Movement, Chicana Movement, as well as Asians and other minorities, the activities of the primarily white, middle-class women in the women's liberation movement were focused specifically on sex-based violence and the social construction of gender as a tool of sex-based ...
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
Jo Freeman aka Joreen (born August 26, 1945), is an American feminist, political scientist, writer and attorney.As a student at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s, she became active in organizations working for civil liberties and the civil rights movement.
One recent afternoon, Richardson sat next to other veteran activists in a classroom at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, sharing tactics they used in the 1960s to register Black Southerners.
The anti-rape movement was an organized struggle against the legal and cultural tolerance of the widespread sexual violence to which women were disproportionately subjected.
Lack of recognition to the African American women during the movement often stemmed from the issue of having to navigate both race and gender norms during the time period. It was only through sheer perseverance and strength were they able to make such detrimental achievements towards the movement. Women prepare to march on Washington, D.C., 1963
There are a handful of biographies you can read to learn more about Baker’s activism, including “Ella Baker: Freedom Bound,” “Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement” and “Ella Baker ...
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.