《At the Dark End of the Street : Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Ri》是2010年Random House US出版社出版的圖書，作者是Danielle L. McGuire。
基本介紹
- 書名：At the Dark End of the Street : Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Ri
- 作者：Danielle L. McGuire
- 出版社：Random House US出版社
- ISBN：9780307269065
內容簡介
Long before Rosa Parks became famous for resisting Jim Crow laws, she was engaged in advocating for social justice for black women who were the victims of sexual violence at the hands of white men. Historian McGuire aims to rewrite the history of the civil rights movement by highlighting sexual violence in the broader context of racial injustice and the fight for freedom. Parks worked as an investigator for the NAACP branch office in Montgomery, Alabama, specializing in cases involving black women who had been sexually assaulted by white men––cases that often went untried and were the political opposite of the allegations of black men raping white women ending in summary lynching with or without trials. McGuire traces the history of several rape cases that triggered vehement resistance by the NAACP and other groups, including the 1975 trial of Joan Little, who killed a white jailer who sexually assaulted her. Despite the long tradition of dismissing charges brought by blacks against whites, several of the cases ended in convictions, as black women asserted their right to be treated justly. --Vanessa Bush
