ABSTRACT
A member of one group tells us that they "all fit the young, white, middle-class, activist description." And the first national Women's Liberation Conference in November 1968 with representatives from 30 states all over the country, was also described as "lily-white and middle class." The idea of separatism was not easy for the radical women in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to arrive at, nor to implement. There was a long period of discussion of the pro's and con's. Segregated groups, caucuses, "co-ed" groups were experimented with. The idea "that female liberation would be divisive, because women would be fighting the agent of their oppression — men reveals the prejudice against women. SDS still wished to recover the assistance of the "feminist" Movement Women. But when in the fall of 1969 it invited them to participate in the National Action in Chicago, the so-called Days of Rage.
