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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Pow
Contributor(s): McGuire, Danielle L. (Author)
ISBN: 0307389243     ISBN-13: 9780307389244
Publisher: Vintage
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 323.119
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.28" W x 8.01" (0.87 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Black History
 
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Publisher Description:
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor--a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men.

An important step to finally facing the terrible legacies of race and gender in this country." --The Washington Post

Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery's city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written.

In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a twenty-four-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer--Rosa Parks--to Abbeville. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that exposed a ritualized history of sexual assault against Black women and added fire to the growing call for change.