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Author McGuire, Danielle L.

Title 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.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  323.11 MCGUIRE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  323.1196 McGUIRE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  323.1196 MCG    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  323.1196 MCGUIRE    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  323.1196 MCG    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  323.1196 M148A    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  323.1196 MCGUIRE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  323.1196073 MC    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-309) and index.
Contents "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."
Summary 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.
Subject African American women -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
African American women -- Violence against -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Rape -- Political aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780307269065 alkaline paper
030726906X alkaline paper
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