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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
At the Dark End of the Street Black Women Rape and ResistanceA New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Author: Danielle L. Mcguire
In a supposedly solitary, spontaneous act, Rosa Parks sparked the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which gave birth to the civil rights movement. Parks is often described as an unassuming woman whose fatigue caused her to defy the Jim Crow laws. The truth of who she was and what really started the boycott is far different, and, until now...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307269065
ISBN-10: 030726906X
Publication Date: 9/7/2010
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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