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100 1 $aMcGuire, Danielle L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008148691
245 10 $aAt the dark end of the street :$bblack women, rape, and resistance : a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power /$cDanielle L. McGuire.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2010.
300 $axxii, 324 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gChapter 1.$t"They'd Kill Me If I Told" --$gChapter 2.$t"Negroes Every Day Are Being Molested" --$gChapter 3.$t"Walking in Pride and Dignity" --$gChapter 4.$t"There's Open Season on Negroes Now" --$gChapter 5.$t"It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped" --$gChapter 6.$t"A Black Woman's Body Was Never Hers Alone" --$gChapter 7.$tSex and Civil Rights --$gChapter 8.$t"Power to the Ice Pick!"
520 1 $a""At the Dark End of the Street is one of those rare studies that makes a well-known story seem startlingly new. Anyone who thinks he knows the history of the modern civil rights movement needs to read this terrifying, illuminating book.K︣evin Boyle, winner of the National Book Award, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" ""This book is as essential as its history is infuriating."N︣ell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People" ""Just when we thought there couldn't possibly be anything left to uncover about the civil rights movement, Danielle L. McGuire finds a new facet of that endlessly prismatic struggle at the core of our national identity. By reinterpreting black liberation through the lens of organized resistance to white male sexual aggression against African-American women, McGuire ingeniously upends the white race's ultimate rationale for its violent subjugation of blacksi︣mputed black male sexual aggression against white women. It is an original premise, and at the Dark End of the Street delivers on it with scholarly authority and narrative polish."D︣iane McWhorter, author of Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution" "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 to Abbeville. Her name was Rosa Parks. In taking on this case, Parks helped to launch a movement that ultimately changed the world." "The author gives us the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began; how it was in part started in protest against the ritualistic rape of black women by white men who used economic intimidation, sexual violence, and terror to derail the freedom movement; and how those forces persisted unpunished throughout the Jim Crow era when white men assaulted black women to enforce rules of racial and economic hierarchy. Black women's protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled civil rights campaigns throughout the South that began during World War II and went through to the Black Power movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was the baptism, not the birth, of that struggle." "At the Dark End of the Street describes the decades of degradation black women on the Montgomery city buses endured on their way to cook and clean for their white bosses. It reveals how Rosa Parks, by 1955 one of the most radical activists in Alabama, had had enough. "There had to be a stopping place," she said, "and this seemed to be the place for me to stop being pushed around." Parks refused to move from her seat on the bus, was arrested, and, with fierce activist Jo Ann Robinson, organized a bus boycott." "The protest, intended to last for twenty-four hours, became a yearlong struggle for dignity and justice. It broke the back of the Montgomery city bus lines and bankrupted the company." "We see how and why Rosa Parks, instead of becoming a leader of the movement she helped to start, was turned into a symbol of virtuous black womanhood, sainted and celebrated for her quiet dignity, prim demeanor, and middle-class proprietyh︣er radicalism all but erased. And we see as well how thousands of black women whose courage and fortitude helped to transform America were reduced to the footnotes of history. A controversial, moving, and courageous book."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$xCivil rights$zAlabama$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$xViolence against$zAlabama$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aRape$xPolitical aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zSouthern States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100354
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113616
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