The Civil Rights Movement influenced the women's liberation movement in four major ways. First, it provided women with a successful model for how a successful movement should organize. Second, the civil rights movement expanded the concept of leadership to include women. Third, by fighting for equality, the civil rights movement changed the culture of advocacy and made social justice a legitimate cause. Finally, ultimately excluding women, the civil rights movement pushed women to organize their own movement. Without the civil rights movement, the women's movement probably would never have gotten off the ground on its own. The civil rights movement (and the activists involved) gave women a role model for success. The method used by the civil rights movement demonstrated the power to solve social problems through collective action. Using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing in national networks such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching out to college campuses through Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the civil rights movement was capable of bringing together Northerners and Southerners. , older and younger citizens, men and women to work for one cause. Women were inspired by this in the creation of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and other feminist groups – NOW even states in its Statement of Purpose that “there is no civil rights movement that speaks for women, as there was for blacks and women." other victims of discrimination” and that NOW must take on that responsibility. Equally important was the role played by black women on an individual level in providing a role model for white women to follow. Because black men had difficulty finding work, black women had a history of working in... middle of paper... at: Bedford/St. Martin, 2009. 59-62. Print.Lawson, Steven F., and Charles M. Payne. Discussion of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 140. Print.Lawson, Steven F., and Charles M. Payne. “This Transformation of People”: An Interview with Bob Moses. Discussion of the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 170-188. Print.MacLean, 11.Murray, Pauli. Women's rights are part of human rights. The American women's movement, 1945-2000 a brief history with documents. Comp. Nancy MacLean. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2009. 69-71. Print.Hayden, Casey and Mary King. Sex and caste. The movements of the new left, 1950-1975. Comp. Van Gosse. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2005. 99-103. Print.Lawson and Payne, 150.MacLean, 10.MacLean, 14.MacLean, 14.MacLean, 16.