Don't Call Us Girls

Don¿t Call Us Girls examines the importance of women¿s participation in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, and the international anti-war movement. This collective voice for peace, and an end to nuclear proliferation, reached back to before the Second World War and then firmly embedded itself during the war years when women assumed such important roles in the workplace that Franklin D. Roosevelt called them the ¿Arsenal of Democracy¿. When the men returned from war, women were encouraged by forces as powerful as government agencies and eminent psychiatrists to return to their ¿place¿ at home. And return home they did, only to realize that they could use the skills they practiced as housewives to begin organizing themselves into groups that would start a wave of protest action that swept through the late 1950s, gathering up the Civil Rights Movement as it hurtled ever forward through the next two decades. In the 1960s and 1970s, no institution or convention was sacred¿many