Many women during this time-period placed this cause above their home life. Thousands of women left their homes and banded together to fight for the rights of the race, not just the men, like Martin Luther King Jr., who are noted in history. “Women of all classes got involved and this illustrates how much women’s roles have been overlooked by history.” These women left their homes, and in some cases, family, to fight for the ri

ghts of the race above gender, and, ultimately, got little to no credit for their efforts. These women were, in fact, discouraged in documenting their stories. “Women were discouraged from taking up their pens at the same time they lost much of the rationale for female leadership that had been generated during the previous era.” Even in the cases that wanted to, these women could only pass down their stories by mouth successfully. As they lost the right and ability to tell their stories, the female leadership they had fought for during the suffrage movement began to dissolve as the race became more important than gender. Hamer did not see this as a problem for she believed that only when the rights of all blacks were gained, could the rights of the genders be dealt with effectively. The women of the Civil Rights Movement played key roles in the success of it, but got little to know credit because of the masculinized view of women’s roles and how they pertained to leadership. These women left their homes and families and very few get credit for the sacrifices made because of the view of their roles and the discouragement of the recording of their efforts.

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