So the civil rights movement has absolutely inspired twice in our history a fight for women's equality. The civil rights movement for justice and for economic equality actually influenced two women's movement, one in the 19th century, when the abolitionist movement inspired a women's right movement and suffrage movement, and then again in the 20th century, when women who had been member of the civil rights movement, the union movement founded NOW, and when younger women who had been part of the civil rights movement founded the Younger Women's Liberation Movement. RUTH ROSEN, University of California: Absolutely. Professor Rosen, has this half-century changed what we mean, even who we're talking about, when we throw around the terms human rights and civil rights? Ruth Rosen is a professor emerita of history at the University of California, Davis, and author of the book "The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America." And George Chauncey is co-director of the Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and a professor of history and American studies at Yale University. For that, we get two different perspectives.
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