... (SNCC) would take within the movement. She echoes the difficulties women organizers have encountered in the movement in this statement in which she reflects on her role in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC): "I knew from the beginning that having a woman be an executive of SCLC was not something that would go over with the male dominated leadership. And then, of ... the history of women's involvement in the civil right's movement than just their participation in the many large male led civil rights organizations. National organizations such as the Young Women's Christia...

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... is clear that the mainstream has its origin in the liberal democratic tradition of Western Europe, a tradition which is itself the product of the Greek philosophy, Roman law, the Judeo-Christian tradition, the humanism of the Reformation and the Age of reason' (Robertson and Merrils, 1996, p2). The ancient Greeks thinker Aristotle spoke of man as a social being with a 'reasoning ... ...

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... that made the segregation of buses unconstitutional uner the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. In the following year, Rustin and Dr. King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. There were some concerns from African-American leaders that Rustin's sexuality and his ties to the Communists would undermine the goals of the Civil Rights Movement in which ... ...

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