Women in the Civil Rights Movement: SCLC and SNCC

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10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_125How to use a DOI?

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Women the Civil Rights Movement SNCC SCLC

Abstract

This study investigates the participation of women in the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on their roles in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The author’s goal was to show, through the use of a comparative analysis approach, that even though women were treated unequally at times during the Civil Rights Movement, including by the prominent SCLC, they were empowered by their participation in youth-oriented organizations such as the SNCC. This difference between the two groups is due to the essential variation in their organization structure. SNCC employs a group-centered, non-patriarchal organization, in contrast to the SCLC, which is hampered by its centralization of authority; this gave more opportunities for leadership and promoted a more friendly environment for women. This comparison aims to explore future organizing methods for sexual equality.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinyang Lyu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/11
TI  - Women in the Civil Rights Movement: SCLC and SNCC
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 965
EP  - 971
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_125
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_125
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