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At the Dark End of the Street

Danielle McGuire, assistant history professor at Wayne State University, recounts the politically active life of Rosa Parks, a side of the… read more

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. Ms. 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. 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. Ms. 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. Danielle McGuire discussed her book at the Decatur Library in Decatur, Georgia. close

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At the Dark End of the Street

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Program ID:
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Location:
Decatur, Georgia, United States
First Aired:
Oct 16, 2010 | 9:08pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:
Dec 14, 2015 | 4:00am EST | C-SPAN 3

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