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

Summary: A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307269065 (alk. paper) :
ISBN: 030726906X (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxii, 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Borzoi Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-309) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Chapter 1. "They'd Kill Me If I Told" -- Chapter 2. "Negroes Every Day Are Being Molested" -- Chapter 3. "Walking in Pride and Dignity" -- Chapter 4. "There's Open Season on Negroes Now" -- Chapter 5. "It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped" -- Chapter 6. "A Black Woman's Body Was Never Hers Alone" -- Chapter 7. Sex and Civil Rights -- Chapter 8. "Power to the Ice Pick!"