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Others remembered the victories, whether ending the war or winning abortion rights, and saw the New Left's end as the beginning of long-term gains in power. S. defeat in Vietnam. The antiwar movement was the common ground shared by all activists, from Betty Friedan to Bobby Seale. S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and Nixon's resignation in 1974, that common cause was gone. " He was referring not just to Watergate but also to the war in Vietnam and the confrontations at home. His expression of relief spoke to the desire for civic peace and the diminished possibility of a radical upsurge.
Since then, scholars have explained Black Power as an expression of the rage felt by civil rights activists over their betrayal by white liberals. The catalog of betrayals included the federal government's refusal to protect civil rights workers from violence, the failure to act against de facto segregation in the North, attempts by white liberals to control the civil rights movement, and the humiliation of the Mississippi Freedom Democrats at the Democratic National Convention in 1964. These explanations are only partially correct.
Even in these organizations, women were still expected to abide by the gender roles of the 1950s: They were helpmates, girlfriends, and assistants. They took notes, made coffee, and got out mailings, while men dominated leadership bodies, led debates, and wrote articles. At a SNCC retreat in late 1964, a few women who were experienced movement veterans circulated an anonymous "Position Paper (Women in the Movement)," comparing the treatment of African Americans as second-class citizens with the treatment of women in SNCC.