The aim of the Civil Rights Movement was to push back against the tendency to classify Americans by race and to try to create a society in which skin color and ancestry were not controlling legal facts. The goal was integration; the concept of “separate but equal” was the enemy. But feminist campaigning has never really been like that. There could have been a broad social movement, based on the civil rights model, demanding integration of all aspects of public life, but that’s not what the movement for women’s rights demanded.