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 resistance - a new history of the civil rights movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of black power /

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Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery's city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks...

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Main Author: McGuire, Danielle L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., October 2011.
Edition:First Vintage Books edition.
Subjects:
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.

Normandale Community College

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Call Number: E185.61 .M34 2011

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