<p>Harry Reasoner, CBS early evening news, June 25, 1970. Rea-soner was commenting on a court decision permitting women to enter McSorley's, a New York bar.</p>

<p>It should be noted that when many contemporary feminists compare themselves to slaves, they are speaking of historical slavery, not of black American chattel slavery, of which they have no personal knowledge. They are influenced not only by Engels but by John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women (1869).</p>

<p>Beverly Jones and Judith Brown, »Toward a Female Liberation Movement« (Boston: New England Free Press, n.d.).</p>

<p>The Honorable Shirley Chisholm discusses separatism: »... because of the bizarre aspects of their roles and the influence that nontraditional contact among them has on the general society, blacks and whites, males and females, must operate almost independently of each other in order to escape from the quicksands of psychological slavery«. Her essay, »Racism and Anti-Feminism«, Black Scholar, 1 (January-February 1970): 40-45 is a lucid account of the new feminism by an admirable black woman.</p>

<p>Roxanne Dunbar, »Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution«, Firestone and Koedt, op. cit., p. 48. Dunbar says the Vietnamese have also done this.</p>

<p>The memo, written for private circulation, is dated November 18, 1965. It was later printed in Liberation, 11 (April 1966): 35-36. Liberation, 11 (December 1966) went on to print four more articles about the same problem, which gave some programs for women's liberation and which drew parallels between being a black and being a woman in America.</p>

<p>»The Negro Family: the Case for National Action«, in Leon Friedman, ed., The Civil Rights Reader (New York: Walker and Company, 1967), p. 291.</p>

<p>Carol Hanisch, »Hard Knocks: Working for Women's Liberation in a Mixed (Male-Female) Movement Group«, Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt, eds., Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation (New York, 1970), p. 60. Other white women veterans of the civil rights movement have less unhappy accounts of what happened, particularly in the South. They accuse some women of themselves using sex in order to gain power. They say that at least in the beginning women were influential.

<p>Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream, rev. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), p. 141.</p>

<p>Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (New York: Atheneum, 1968), p. 129. Miss Flexner's book remains the most lucid survey of the origins of feminism in America. An unpublished doctoral dissertation, K. E. Melder, »The Beginnings of the Women's Rights Movement 1800-1840« (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1964), is also very useful.</p>