Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore Map Genealogies
of Feminist Activism
February 19, 2021
During the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, feminist activism richly diverse both in the women involved and in its aims, tone, and strategies exploded in the United States and around the world, forever changing society by expanding the rights, opportunities, and identities available to women. And at the center of everything that the women’s liberation movement achieved was the writing that both forged and propelled it, writing that continues to inspire, challenge, educate, and even offend.
Yet, by the mid-1980s, despite occasional victories, the feminist movement had become so distorted and vilified that the tag “feminist” was rejected by many women who had welcomed the changes in their lives the movement produced. At the end of World War II and even as recently as 1970, as detailed by Gene Boyer in her essay, excerpted in this volume, “Are Woman Equal Under the Law?” a husband’s forcing
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The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious life at the University of Mississippi in 1956 because of his calls for integration. He escorted Black children through a hostile mob in 1957 to integrate Little Rock s Central High School. He was the only white person that was invited to be part of the group that founded Martin Luther King Jr. s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He helped integrate Nashville s lunch counters and organize the Freedom Rides.
But Campbell was also, despite a slew of death threats he received from white segregationists, an unofficial chaplain to the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He denounced and publicly fought the Klan s racism, acts of terror and violence and marched with Black civil rights protesters in his native Mississippi, but he steadfastly refused to cancel white racists out of his life. He refused to demonize them as less tha