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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Black matriarchy was a popular stereotype in the 1950s and 1960s that exemplified black American family structure. This ideology depicted traditional black American households as being dominated and controlled by outspoken and emasculating women. The role of motherhood that black women of this time period were expected to fulfill created a paradox known as the "superwoman." This image of the superwoman depicted the black mother as someone who had to be a traditional good mother: nurturing and caring towards her children, but at the same time she was considered unfeminine, strong willed and too domineering. During the time of the Civil Rights Movement there was a situation of devastating poverty for many black families. Many black men could not support their families.