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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 of the rise of black power / Danielle L. McGuire.
Chronicles the events surrounding the 1944 rape and beating of an African-American woman by seven white men in Abbeville, Alabama, focusing on Rosa Parks' investigation into the case and the impact her involvement had on the 1955 boycott she started, which in turn led to the civil rights movement.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307269065 (trade : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 030726906X
- Physical Description: xxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-309) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- "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!" -- "We all lived in fear for years." |
| Citation/References Note: | Pub Weekly, July 2010 Pub Weekly |
| Target Audience Note: | Adult Follett Library Resources Adult |
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| Bethlehem Main Library | 323.119 (Text) | 33062007414361 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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