1. Complete and submit Assignment 2 – The 2nd Wave American Feminist Movement. Assignment objective: Introduce students to a social movement that expanded civil rights and understand how different groups have fought for and won protections for their civil rights. For this assignment, do the following:

Watch PBS’s Makers: Women Who Make America: Part One, The Awakening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxrOe1aGa7M which explores the birth of the modern American women’s movement which arose in the 1950s-1960s.  The film explores two aspects of the movement; one which sought to address gender inequality and the other which sought a broader social transformation which would forever change gender as we know it.  In a two page, double spaced paper, please answer the following questions:

1. What was the condition of women in the 1950s and 1960s? What restrictions were placed on them because of their gender? 

2. Two very different responses arose to address women’s oppression, NOW and the Women’s Liberation Movement.  What issues were each concerned with? What tactics did they use?

3. Who was left out of the conversation?

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