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pedestrienne rated it

6 years ago

text 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

Yes, the stories told in this book are brutal. But the women who told their stories are courageous and every brutality is balanced by a sense of the monumental fight their stories contributed to and the acknowledgement that it was women's work and voices that sparked and were the foundation of the c...

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Feminism in Cold Storage rated it

9 years ago

url 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

I've been looking forward to reading this book for quite some time, but I'm glad that I hadn't done so until I left Mississippi. There's a part of me that wishes I would have known to see some of the places mentioned in this book, but I'm also glad that I didn't have to live with the full truth. It'...

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catpdx rated it

11 years ago

text 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

A brilliant and distressing book, and a needed one - a must-read for anyone interested in human rights, women's history, race, and justice. One knows going in that there's likely little of the latter to be found, but story after story still evokes anger and shock.McGuire does a wonderful job of fles...

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