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Women In The Movement Memo Analysis

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Reactions to this memo varied. Some white women in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the New Left handed out the memo in support of its statements. The white women of SNCC responded more positively than black women, but less positively than the SDS and the New Left. White women also raised many of the issues; they publically spoke out against the sexism within the organization. Women in SNCC might not have spoken out as much as the other groups for the same reasons they wrote “SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement" anonymously. On the other hand, Stokely Carmichael, a prominent leader of SNCC, said, “The position of women in SNCC is prone!” White feminists often quoted Carmichael to show the sexism in SNCC. Black women and
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