"McGuire restores to memory the courageous black women who dared seek legal remedy, when black women and their families faced particular hazards for doing so.
Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, winner of the National Book Award. Anyone who thinks he knows the history of the modern civil rights movement needs to read this terrifying, illuminating book." "One one of those rare studies that makes a well-known story seem startlingly new. She looks at the crucial role played by African American women, at people like Rosa Parks, already a seasoned antirape activist more than a decade before the bus boycott, who turned a one-day protest on the buses into a three-decade war against white supremacy that changed the world.Īt the Dark End of the Street is a revelation-and certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
McGuire brilliantly reinterprets the history of America’s civil rights movement in terms of the ritualistic rape and sexualized violence that for almost three hundred years had been perpetrated against black women. The truth of who she was and what really started the boycott is far different, and, until now, unwritten. Parks is often described as an unassuming woman whose fatigue caused her to defy the Jim Crow laws. In a supposedly solitary, spontaneous act, Rosa Parks sparked the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which gave birth to the civil rights movement.
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