at the dark end of the street by danielle l mcguire

Without an appreciation for the particular predicaments of black women in the Jim Crow South, it is nearly impossible to understand why thousands of working-class and hundreds of middle-class black women chose to walk rather than ride the bus for 381 days. Name: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and ResistanceA New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rose Parks to the Rise of Black Power Authors: Danielle L. While these men had a major impact on the emerging protest movement, it was black women's decade-long struggle against mistreatment and abuse by white bus drivers and police officers that launched the boycott. For decades, the Montgomery bus boycott has been told as a story triggered by Rosa Park's spontaneous refusal to give up her seat followed by the triumphant leadership of men like Fred Gray, Martin Luther King, Jr., E. Although the Martin case is not directly relevant to Danielle McGuires theme of sexualized violence against blacks, particularly black women, it is instructive. 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 by Danielle L. According to McGuire, these acts of sexual violence committed by white men are not merely individual acts of violence. McGuire traces the long history of black women speaking out against sexual violence. “The enormous spotlight that focused on King, combined with the construction of Rosa Parks as a saintly symbol, hid the women's long struggle in the dimly lit background, obscuring the origins of the MIA and erasing women from the movement. In At the Dark End of the Street, Danielle L.

At the dark end of the street by danielle l mcguire