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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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

(2010)

By: McGuire, Danielle L

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

323.1196/MCGUIRE,D

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	323.1196/MCGUIRE,D	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010

EDITION

First edition

DESCRIPTION

xxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780307269065 (alk. paper), 030726906X (alk. paper), 9780307269065 (alk. paper), 030726906X (alk. paper)

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

"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."