At the Dark End of the Street
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At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L Mcguire
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.
Danielle L. is a writer who lives in New York City. McGuire was born in the Wisconsin town of Janesville. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rutgers University is a public research university in New Jersey. She lives in Detroit, Michigan, and works as an assistant professor in the History Department at Wayne State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307389244 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307389243 |
| Title | At the Dark End of the Street |
| Author | Danielle L Mcguire |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2011-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Frederick Jackson Turner Award 2011, Winner of Lillian Smith Book Award 2011 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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