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 amazonde mcguire danielle l fremdsprachige bucher. 2011 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 the sixties vol 4 no 1 pp 91 94. 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 mcguire danielle l on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers 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. Rosa parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on montgomerys city buses and whose supposedly spontaneous act sparked the 1955 boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement the truth of who rosa parks was and what really lay beneath the boycott is far different from . At the dark end of the street describes the decades of degradation black women on the montgomery city buses endured on their way to cook and clean for their white bosses it reveals how rosa parks by 1955 one of the most radical activists in alabama had had enough there had to be a stopping place she said and this seemed to be the place for me to stop being pushed around