Despite the connections between the women's and civil rights movements, some tension arose during the late 1960s and early 1970s as non-white women argued that feminism was predominantly white and middle class, and did not understand and was not concerned with race issues.
A pesar das conexións entre os movementos feminista e de dereitos civís, algunha tensión xurdiu durante a década de 1960 e comezos de 1970, cando as mulleres non brancas argumentaban que o feminismo era predominantemente branco e de clase media e non entendía e/ou non estaba preocupado coas cuestións raciais.