Rosa Parks and Civil Rights Movement

Amelia Boynton: Even when the movement did have high-profile female names, their true role was often watered down to fit within "respectable" notions of femininity, according to Rabble. For example, the story of Rosa Parks was treated as that of a quiet seamstress who was just tired and did not want to give up her seat for a white man. Until fairly recently, for example, the U.S. civil rights movement histories were completely male-dominated, though that neglect is slowly being reclaimed as activists like Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Amelia Boynton, and Fannie Lou Hamer, among many others, become long-overdue subjects of studies on the era. In fact, as documented in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. It no mistake that the second wave women liberation movement largely grew out of and in reaction to mistreatment of women within the ranks of the civil rights and anti-war movement during the '50s, '60s and '70s . Indeed, if the men who wanted to change society could not allow a role for women beyond keeping the home fires burning, doing the typing, and keeping the coffee warm, what was the point of replacing the old boys' network with the younger boys' club Resistance films With such thoughts in mind, I'd like to recommend two very good films about our collective history for your holiday viewing. Rosa Parks, she was a long-time activist who was justifiably angry, and a fierce NAACP leader and community organizer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.