<span>Basically, many civil rights leaders felt the NAACP was an institution devoted not to expanding civil rights for all African Americans, but promoting the economic privileges of a small, black middle class. As I recall from my Twentieth Century Black Militancy class in university, for a long time the NAACP never pursued litigation to advance social justice for all blacks. It was perceived as an organization that was content to advance a certain amount of economic progress within the larger white power frame and without trying to change the existing white power structure, which was dominated by segregation and jim crow. </span>
Many women reacted to The Feminine Mystique by feeling "empowered to seek social and economic equality" This was considered one of the most influential feminist books of all time.
Judicial review not only applies to the Judicial branch's ability to review the actions of the legislative branch but also to the actions of the Executive Branch in the forms of executive agency action or inaction.
