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
A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
| Main Author: | McGuire, Danielle L. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.