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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGuire, Danielle L.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Civil rights--Alabama--History--20th century.

African American women.

African American women--Violence against--Alabama--History--20th century.

Rape--Political aspects--Southern States--History--20th century.

Rape.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

History.

African American women--Violence against.

African American women--Civil rights.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 324 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 spontaneous act sparked the 1955 boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the boycott is far different from anything previously written.

In this groundbreaking book, Danielle McGuire writes about the 1944 rape of Recy Taylor, a mother and sharecropper who was abducted after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Alabama. The president of the local NAACP branch sent his best investigator. Her name was Rosa Parks. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Prologue: at the dark end of the street

They'd kill me if I told

Negroes every day are being molested

Walking in pride and dignity

There's open season on Negroes now

It was like all of us had been raped

A black woman's body was never hers alone

Sex and civil rights

Power to the ice pick

Epilogue: we all lived in fear for years.

Notes:

"Borzoi Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780307594471

0307594475

Publisher Number:

99983981307

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.