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 power
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Here is the courageous, groundbreaking 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.
"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.
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African American women
African American women -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
African American women -- Violence against -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
History
Nonfiction
Political aspects
Race relations
Rape
Rape -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Sociology
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Violence against
Women's Studies
African American women -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
African American women -- Violence against -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
History
Nonfiction
Political aspects
Race relations
Rape
Rape -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Sociology
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Violence against
Women's Studies
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subject_facet | African American women -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century African American women -- Violence against -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Rape -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | 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 power | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | 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 Power 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 power / Danielle L. McGuire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | At the dark end of the street | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | black women, rape, and resistance- a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | African American women Civil rights Civil rights movements History Nonfiction Political aspects Race relations Rape Sociology Violence against Women's Studies |