At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and

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

Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous,Â here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylorâ€”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.Â

Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomeryâ€™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.Â
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2011-10-04
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780307389244

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2011-10-04
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780307389244

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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