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groundwork for being a feminist.
And to feel that you can
have the power in a group
to do something you think needs to be done
that you could never do on your own...
I think it's what I was
looking for my whole life.
All these other social change movements
that were going on at that time
led to the women's movement.
They gave rise to women's consciousness
of a need to operate on an equal basis.
(pop)
I was a part of the civil rights movement.
I was a big part of the antiwar movement
while I was a graduate student at Berkeley.
And women in the new left started
talking about what we were feeling.
WOMAN:
The women were verymuch discriminated against.
The guys, their names went on
things, they became the spokespeople.
We were used to lick the envelopes.
We did the grunt work. We
did the real work, actually.
We often did the real work of organizing.
I had been at an SDS
meeting and was talking,
and I was a leader in the organization,
and one of guys in the group said,
"Aw, sit down and shut up" to me.
WOMAN:
And we started talkingabout our role as women within SDS.
Why weren't we in the leadership positions?
From that it just kind of sparked
in everybody a sense of recognition.
Aha! This is like a shared thing.
It's just not me feeling insecure.
So, at an antiwar demonstration
to protest the election of Nixon,
we decided we would come together
as women for the first time
and announce we had a movement.
WOMAN:
And Marilyn Webbgets up on the stage
in front of this huge
audience of new left men
and she starts trying to talk.
Well, the moment I started, there
was... this crowd went crazy.
(shouting, jeering)
WILLIS:
And the men startwhistling and catcalling
and saying things like, "Take
her off the stage and f*** her."
And people were yelling,
"F*** her down a dark alley!"
It was just... It was insane.
We were like all looking
at each other, like, what?
WEBB:
I didn't expect movementmen to behave like that,
and I was shocked.
People were organizing blacks
and people were organizing welfare mothers,
and then we were organizing women,
and that everybody would see this
as another leg of the whole movement.
But we weren't respected.
WOMEN:
The revolution has comeOff the pigs!
Black is beautiful
Free Huey!
BEAL:
The black liberationmovement had come into its fore,
and we were talking about
liberation and freedom
half the night on the racial side.
And then all of the sudden
men are going to turn around
and start talking about
putting you in your place?
If you don't want any trouble...
BEAL:
That was the contradiction in termsthat we were no longer prepared to put up with.
So, 1968, we founded the SNCC
Black Women's Liberation Committee
to take up some of these issues.
A number of women felt that
we needed to go off on our own
and focus on what we needed to
do in our fight for liberation.
ROSEN:
I was a graduatestudent at Berkeley.
And one day I saw a little
3-by-5 card in the student union,
and it said a women's group was forming.
And these consciousness-raising
groups spontaneously grew up
in many areas of the country.
women's liberation movement,
I had two little kids under five.
My connection with the
world was, I felt, finished.
During one of my crises of
feeling that my life was over,
I heard some young women talking
about meetings they were having,
and they were talking
about women's liberation,
and they gave the address of a meeting.
So I went to this meeting,
talking about their lives
as I had never imagined people could.
Well, you need to be specially
trained to be a housewife.
You get married, there are
a whole new set of rules.
We still have to look a certain
way and be a certain way,
but there's a whole lot more...
ROSEN:
We went around the room, andpeople asked a very simple question.
How would your life have been
different if you had been a boy?
Why do you think being a woman
might limit you as a human
being, your possibilities?
(woman continues, indistinct)
BEAL:
We challengedconcepts of masculinity.
We challenged concepts of femininity.
We talked about skin color,
how young black women would put cream on
in order to make theirself light-skinned.
SHULMAN:
Suddenly, everythingwas up for questioning.
Women did all of the family
and housework and cooking,
and the men got to make the living
and get all of the attention in the world.
Why was that?
We don't even realize what goes on
until we sit and compare with other women.
GRIFFIN:
And we heard each other.We heard each other into speech.
You could sense it. You could feel it.
You could cut it with a knife, as they say.
The room was electric
with whatever was gonna be shared.
So I said, (sighs)
I've had three abortions,
and the last one was within the last year.
And I started to cry,
because I suddenly understood
that I wasn't alone,
that what I had considered
personal embarrassment
was something that was part of
this whole larger experience.
The big insight of the women's
movement was the personal is political.
Problems that you felt
were happening to you alone
probably were your fault.
But if it's happening to other people,
then it's a social problem and
not just a personal problem.
Once you stop blaming
yourself for all this,
it was like somebody had
lifted a rock off of you.
Then here were women around you who were ready
to go out there and do something about it.
(chanting)
You're out on the streets
Lookin' good
- (continues)
- WOMAN:
In Washington, DC,we were like,
"Have Demonstration, Will Travel."
(continues)
WOLFSON:
We demonstratedin the halls of Congress.
We demonstrated outside of Congress.
There was a group called
Women's International Terrorist
Conspiracy from Hell... WITCH...
that was the action arm.
People had folding witch
And we thought if we
could dress up like witches
and then give a hex to people.
We wanted to challenge the white men's
canon at the University of Chicago.
And so part of the hex went, "Knowledge
is power through which you control
our mind, our spirit,
our bodies, our soul."
- Hex!
- Yeah
What you see here is the
beginning of a movement
that women are human beings
and that we have equal rights.
We intend to go to school, we intend to
have child care so that we can go to school.
We want the university to provide us with
classes that teach us about our history.
ROSEN:
I was in the history departmentand I knew zip, nada,
zero about women's history.
And we realized we didn't know very much
about women's literature or women's art.
In fact, we realized that we had gotten
degrees and we knew nothing about women.
Well, a group of us
decided to call the press.
We took our advanced degrees...
some were PhDs, some
were Masters degrees...
and we burned them in public.
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