The Roots of Women’s Liberation in Civil Rights and Black Power

Readings for an October 17, 2015 workshop offered by National Women’s Liberation: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in Civil Rights and Black Power

All these materials, with the exception of Cynthia Washington’s letter, are from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action, and many are available in complete form online. Simply go to www.Redstockings.org to get a free library card for online access to a treasure trove of founding documents of the 1960s Women’s Liberation Movement, and beyond.

Contents

What We Want, by Stokely Carmichael, 1966, New York Review of Books reprint by Santa Clara County Friends of SNCC. From the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives.

Excerpt from: Toward a Female Liberation Movement, by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown, 1968, Gainesville, Florida. Complete document available at www.redstockings.org.

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female, by Frances Beal, 1969. Distributed by the Redstockings Archives.

We Started from Different Ends of the Spectrum, by Cynthia Washington, Southern Exposure, 1977. (Reprinted in Personal Politics by Sara Evans , 1979.)

The Civil Rights Movement: Lessons for Women’s Liberation, by Kathie Sarachild, 1983. From the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives.