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HEARNAP — Part 42
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“asen and ‘outh ore tne most rrogres ive clenents among white people
soday. The need for chanee $s felt most directly by these tvo groups. The -
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shite srouth are dt sillusioned “ith the materialistic werld of their parents!
reneration and want some real values. to embrace rather than the phoney
ratrictic nap their countr? hands them. women are beseigcd dally fn all
areagby sexism, The #omon's ‘ovement, since its resurrence in the sixties, | ;
has been continually strurmling anc groving to deal with thdroot causes
ung, imrlfentions of sexism in peocrles's Lives.
In theif?so'ts, the ‘iomonts Kovenent was reborn, The roots of rebirth
were nurtured in the Civil Rights rovemont in tne early sixties, to a’ great
extent. Theorig'tnal Xomm ts Hovement in the U.c. had begun through ‘womerls /
particiration in thdAbelitionist ovement in the 1840's. In both 6ases,
“omen cnmo torather tith ™m to Cieht in the ngie of other oppressed people
and tirourh that strugele and their treatment in it, camo to recognize tnelr
aon oprression. . . of “ _ an °
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he vear 1978 anw founded tho first women's organipation ‘in years called ®
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‘smal Organization for ‘omen(NOW). This group uorks on a fairly
Lo atytoned salttteal level, Icbbying for political and civil equality for
~omen, Its membership is bnas‘enlly white, middle-class, professional 7 men
who have somaterial strke in the estoblishment and who want to sec it, cone .
tinue but weighted more torard their side. Keanwhile, a younger, more),
lcoselv-based Women's Movement was groving at the same time. “It rose up in
reaction to the New left, «nite male-dominated politics of the. Civil Rights
and Antt-Ter M-vements and also due to 4 rising national interest in women,
The younger movenent was antie-lo.dership and ansrchistically structured, -
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