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  2. Overview. In 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, historian Danielle L. McGuire uncovers the untold history of many black, female civil rights activists.

  3. 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 refused to move from her seat on the bus, was arrested, and, with fierce activist Jo Ann Robinson , organized a one-day bus boycott.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

  6. Jan 8, 2018 · Jan 8, 2018. A timely book by Danielle L. McGuire explains the fight made by working class black women and Civil Rights activists against rape. It provides a gripping read. Beginning in the 1940s and stretching to the 1970s, it brings to light a largely hidden history.

  7. Sep 7, 2010 · Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the 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.

  8. In At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle L. McGuire, we are taken on a journey through the civil rights movement, but from a different perspective. The book begins with the story of Recy Taylor, a young African American woman who was abducted and raped by six white men in 1944.

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