In the 1960’s, the United States began to emerge victorious in their civil rights movement. The Civil Rights Act was soon passed in 1964-- a landmark piece of US labor law legislation that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. In Toni Morrison’s, ‘Song of Solomon’, published in 1977, she delves into what these discriminations mean to her. When asked why Morrison distances herself from feminism, Morrison explains, “It’s off putting to some readers, who may feel that I’m involved in some kind of feminist tract, I don’t subscribe to patriarchy, and I don’t think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it’s a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things” (Morrison,
