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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 (1st Edition) by Danielle L. Mcguire Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-307-26906-X / 030726906X ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26906-5 / 9780307269065 Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. The truth of who Rosa Parks was a |