![]() ![]() At the Dark End of the Street presents a deep civil rights movement with women at the center, a narrative as poignant, painful and complicated as our own lives. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received her Ph.D. Danielle McGuire discussed her book at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. MCGUIRE was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet. McGuire also explores the sexual abuse that black women faced by white men during the Jim Crow era and how their resistance added in fueling the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. At the Dark End of the Street audiobook, by Danielle L. According to the author the incident solidified Rosa Parks' activism long before her refusal to move from her seat aboard a Montgomery bus in 1955. ![]() McGuire recalls Rosa Parks' involvement as an NAACP organizer who in 1944 investigated the rape of Recy Taylor, a black sharecropper, who was attacked by seven white men on her way home from church. T21:08:36-04:00 Danielle McGuire, assistant history professor at Wayne State University, recounts the politically active life of Rosa Parks, a side of the civil rights figure that the author contends has been under reported. ![]()
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