Compare And Contrast The Civil Rights Movement And Women's Movement

The women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s are both similar and different to the black civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. There are many similarities between the two movements. Both women's movement and black civil rights movement developed groups that fought for what they believed. The women's movement developed the National Organization of Women, also known as NOW. The African Americans developed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, also know as SNCC. They both fought for rights that they believed they should have. Both of the movements are still in documents of the Untied States today. They both consisted of many people that had the same belief. There are also many differences between both the women's movement and the
black civil rights movement. The black civil rights movement was a group of people who fought to end racial discrimination in the United States . The women's movement was a group of people who mainly fought to end discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sex and went on the spearhead efforts to legalize abortion and obtain federal and state support for child-care centers. NOW was started by Betty Friedan and other activists in 1966 and the SNCC was headed by Stokely Carmichael and other college students in 1966. The equal rights amendment was stymied in several state legislatures. The black civil rights movement was occasionally violent, but the women;s rights movement was not violent at all. These are the many differences that the women's movement and the black civil rights movement had. Therefore by all the reason you can now see how the women's rights movement and the black civil rights movement were similar and different.