![]() ![]() Furthermore, McGuire asserts that civil rights historiography needs to be completely overhauled. The author reinterprets Parks as a civil rights activist whose activism centered on the protection of black women against rape in order to make the larger point that the civil rights movement is rooted in African American women's long struggle against sexual violence. Instead of portraying Parks as simply a tired woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, McGuire (Wayne State Univ.) recasts Parks as a tough-nosed, experienced organizer who investigated numerous black female rape incidents in Alabama and orchestrated national protest campaigns on rape victims' behalf during the 1940s and 1950s. Rosa Parks is the book's central character. ![]() ![]() The title of this fast-paced, sweeping narrative history of black female protection campaigns and their relationship to the civil rights movement is a metaphor for the ways in which white supremacy denied black womanhood, as well as how the rape of black women has remained marginal to civil rights movement scholarship. ![]()
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