The postwar feminist movement was shaped, in its inaugural phases, by a larger cultural dynamic rooted in the marginalization, alienation and discontent out of which the 1960s dissident youth movements would emerge. If historians of the feminist movement like Judith Hole and Ellen Levine have noted the relative quiescence of feminism in the prewar and immediate postwar eras between 1920 and 1960, public interest in women's rights for all intents and purposes had vanished. They have also stressed that the origins of the Women's Liberation movement lay with the group of women, mainly white, middle-class university students, active at the start of the 1960s in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Sara Evans has observed that the women's liberation movement was initiated by women in the civil rights movement and the new left who dared to test the old assumptions and myths about female nature against their own experience and discovered that something was drastically wrong.