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Women of color, especially during the Civil Rights movement, were finding themselves underrepresented in both the racial and gender movements that were simultaneously fighting for their greater equality. While Black, Latina/Chicana, Asian, and Native American women were all active in feminist agendas but wary at the time, there were tensions within the broader feminists movements because a large percentage of the whiteness that seemed to dominate leaders were white and the agenda had some stark racial contrasts. Some non-white feminists criticized the organizations that were dedicated wider feminist movement for failing to be equal in the destruction of patriarchal structuresmovement's representation and incorporating racial and other issues.<ref>West, Lois A., ed., <i> Feminist Nationalism</i> (New York: Routledge, 1997. All over </ref>  Across the United States, minority women began the fight of against racial and gender oppression by creating their own organizations. Some had already existed thanks due to the serge of greater women participation in the workforce during the 1940s, like such as the National Council of Negro Women. Other organizations developed during the 1960s and 1970s included , including the Third World Women’s Alliance. The Third Women's World Alliance primary goal was worked to expose the relation between race, sex, sexuality, gender, and class oppressions. This approach is now referred to as intersectionalityoppression.<ref>Aguilar, Marian. "Third World Women's Alliance." <i>Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History</i>. Edited by Colin A. Palmer. 2nd ed. Vol. 5. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, 2191-2192. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 2 June 2016.</ref> The Such views organizations of by minority women eventually became the drivers of the major themes of proved to be influential in the ‘’third wave’’ of feminism that exists emerged later in the 1970s and into today. Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Gloria Anzaldua, as broader racial and Cherrie Morriega successfully imposed their view of feminism onto third wave feminismsocial inequality issues are now incorporated by feminist movements.