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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 by Danielle L. McGuire, does not sound at first like a book that would provide ample information about the role of the Ku Klux Klan in the Civil Rights Era, but through the various cases and demonstrations presented by McGuire, the reader is given insight into the Ku Klux Klan that has yet to presented by another author read for this study. In her book, McGuire analyzes various court cases and movements from the early 20th century into the 1970s to show the growth of the civil rights movement through black women's resistance. She focuses on the particular women involved and the role that respectability …show more content…

McGuire draws from a large amount of manuscript collections that span the nation, from Eugene "Bull" Connor papers to the Birmingham Police Surveillance Files from 1947-80, to FBI File on Ku Klux Klan murder of Viola Liuzzo. She uses digital sources such as the Florida Department of Corrections Inmate Search and interviews from the PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize. McGuire herself did twenty-nine interviews for the book, speaking multiple times with Recy Taylor and her family. She accessed close to fifty newspapers and periodicals ranging in bias from Jet magazine to Birmingham News to the New York Herald-Tribune. McGuire drew from a combination of books, articles, and dissertations and theses for her secondary sources. She pulled from over two hundred and fifty books ranging in topic from the civil rights movement in southern newspapers to Alabama Communists. When it came to books, she relied on a large number of authors, but pulled multiple sources from a few authors such as Adam Fairclough four books) and John D'Emilio (four books). She accessed both multiple books and articles from the author Angela Davis focusing on black politics and female resistance, as well as Davis' autobiography (a primary source). A number of the dissertations and theses that McGuire pulls from discuss the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African Americans and

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