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 mcguire new york knopf 2010 xxii 324 pp 2795 isbn 978 0 307 26906 5 jane dailey jane dailey university of chicago chicago illinois daileyuchicagoedu search for other works by this author on oxford academic . Rosa parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on montgomerys city buses and whose supposedly spontaneous act sparked the 1955 boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement the truth of who rosa parks was and what really lay beneath the boycott is far different from . 2011 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 the sixties vol 4 no 1 pp 91 94. Danielle l mcguire offers a startling new addition to the history of sexual aggression in 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 through a chronological reexamination of the sexual violence suffered by black women and some men in the south prior to the civil rights movement . Get this from a library 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 danielle l mcguire a history of americas civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized african american women for centuries revealing rosa parkss contributions as an