The Civil Rights Movement influenced the women's liberation movement in four main 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, by ultimately excluding women, the civil rights movement inspired women to organize their own movement. Without the civil rights movement, the women's movement would probably never have gotten off the ground on its own. The civil rights movement (and the activists involved) gave women a model for success. The method used by the civil rights movement demonstrated the power of solving social problems through collective action. Using lunch counter sit-ins, organizing in national networks like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and reaching college campuses through Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the civil rights movement was able to bring together northerners and southerners. , older and younger citizens, men and women working for a single cause. Women were inspired to create the National Organization for Women (NOW) and other feminist groups – NOW even states in its Statement of Intent that "there is no civil rights movement that speaks for women, as he did for blacks and women.” other victims of discrimination” and that NOW must take this responsibility. Equally important was the role that black women played, on an individual level, in providing a role model for white women to follow. Because black men had a harder time finding jobs, black women used to work...... middle of article ...... on: Bedford/St. Martin, 2009. 59-62. Print. Lawson, Steven F. and Charles M. Payne. Debating 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. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham: Rowman and 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.