She's Beautiful When She's Angry Page #2

I remember going on television shows

when I was the chapter president,

and people would seriously ask you

whether you thought women

should get equal pay.

"Well, do you think women should get

equal pay?" I mean, people would say that.

You had to say, this wasn't

just handed down from Moses.

This was discrimination.

(siren wailing)

(protesters singing)

What is the point of your march?

There are hundreds of women that

want peace, and we want peace now.

COLLINS:
I became aware of what was

called the younger branch of the movement.

Now, I was 30. But anyway...

They identified themselves

as women's liberation,

and this was people coming

out of the antiwar movement

and the college movement and

the civil rights movement.

WOMAN:
In the Southern

civil rights movement,

the most important role that anybody

could play was the role of an organizer.

(singing)

You know, you met with people and you

helped them find the courage to stand up...

that it was their voice and their desires

for change that gave a movement its power.

We shall overcome

WOMAN:
I worked in Alabama,

going door-to-door, canvassing,

getting people to go register to vote.

All the women I encountered

who were working in the

civil rights movement...

It was an impressive bunch of women.

What I saw was a different image

of what it meant to be a

woman, a different model.

And we do realize

with every step forwards,

and with every effort and sincere prayer,

that we will overcome.

- Yes!

- All right!

FREEMAN:
Although I didn't

fully realize it at the time,

I was, in fact, getting the

groundwork for being a feminist.

And to feel that you can

have the power in a group

to do something you think needs to be done

that you could never do on your own...

I think it's what I was

looking for my whole life.

All these other social change movements

that were going on at that time

led to the women's movement.

They gave rise to women's consciousness

of a need to operate on an equal basis.

(pop)

I was a part of the civil rights movement.

I was a big part of the antiwar movement

while I was a graduate student at Berkeley.

And women in the new left started

talking about what we were feeling.

WOMAN:
The women were very

much discriminated against.

The guys, their names went on

things, they became the spokespeople.

We were used to lick the envelopes.

We did the grunt work. We

did the real work, actually.

We often did the real work of organizing.

I had been at an SDS

meeting and was talking,

and I was a leader in the organization,

and one of guys in the group said,

"Aw, sit down and shut up" to me.

WOMAN:
And we started talking

about our role as women within SDS.

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