Not only did the civil rights movement primarily focus on the oppression of black men, but many black women faced severe sexism within civil rights groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Within the movement, men dominated the powerful positions. black feminists did not want the movement to be the struggle only for black men's rights, they wanted black women's rights to be incorporated too. Black feminists also felt they needed to have their own movement because the complaints of white feminists sometimes differed from their own and favored white women.