Document Type
Research Paper
Publication Date
Spring 2025
First page number:
1
Last page number:
27
Abstract
This research paper discusses American Black women’s interactions with feminist movements with a focus on the story of one civil rights group, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The paper tells the account of how advancing feminist thought in the 1960s was met with different reactions among SNCC’s racially diverse membership. With ideologies such as Black Power also gaining in popularity at this time, rifts among racial lines were created within SNCC that would echo later racial disparities in the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s. The thesis of the paper largely speaks to the issue of intersectionality and how different identities, such as race, can create unique experiences when combined with other identities, such as gender.
Controlled Subject
Nineteen sixties; Women, Black--Social conditions; Feminism
Disciplines
Social History | United States History | Women's History
File Format
File Size
848 KB
Language
English
Rights
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Repository Citation
Sinkevitch, O.
(2025).
Black Women & Feminism: SNCC, the Second Wave, and Balancing Identities of Gender & Race.
1-27.
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