In most of these movements there was no way to join the movement other than through personal statements, e.g., “I am a feminist,” or certain acts, e.g., burning your draft card in public or sitting down in public areas reserved for "Whites Only."

The mass media often talked, for example, about the Hippie movement and then anointed certain people as its main representative, say, Abbie Hoffman. In like manner, the Reverend Martin Luther King was cited as a leader of the Civil Rights movement, yet his authority was that of a prophet, not an executive director. In the Feminist movement you had heads of NOW (National Organization for Women) as well as Jane Fonda and Erica Jong identified as leaders but, in fact, the movement was, as movements are, decentralized.

Bob Dylan’s words describe what has
not stopped happening since he first sang them,
“The times they are a-changin’.”

 

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