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=** Bettina Aptheker**=


 * Directions**: Use the following questions and resources to learn more about your individual. Take careful notes; you may not simply cut and paste from the Internet into your notes. Keep careful track of your sources for your Works Cited. Based on your research, you will create a profile of your individual to share with the class. This profile should provide basic background information on your individual //and// provide an overview of his/her stance on our main questions: where is the U.S. headed from here? what are the primary issues/concerns facing our nation? how would deal with these issues and concerns?


 * Questions to consider as you do your research?**
 * How did the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement affect the development of the women's movement in the late 1960s?
 * What were Aptheker's major concerns? goals?
 * What had changed ---historical context!---that helps us understand why women began to throw off the constraints of the 1950s and challenge gender inequality?
 * How would she define equality? How might her goals compare to those of civil rights activists at the time?


 * Resources**
 * Bettina Aptheker, Intimate Politics; how I Grew Up Red: []
 * Gale: Women's History: []l
 * Ms.Magazine: Then and Now: []
 * Time Magazine: Women on the March (1970): []
 * Time Magazine: Liberating Women (1970): []
 * History Matters: Steinem's Testimony on the ERA: []