The Devastating Recy Taylor Rape Case: Joan Little

After the devastating Recy Taylor rape case, the author researches similar cases about sexually abused black women. She finds a remarkable case about a courageous woman named Joan Little. The Joan Little case was about the abuse by police in a prison that lead Joan Little, a strong woman, to make a tough decision that would change her life. She was faced with either being raped or harm the abuser. She chose to kill the prison officer who was attempting to sexually attack her. She chose not to be victim. Joan Little was woke. She was knowledgeable about how white supremacy controlled everything in the system. The system had no hopes of showing mercy to an innocent woman, let alone a black woman. The system would try to imprison her for rescuing

He has the law by his side, he has more power because of white supremacy, and the black women are powerless. I mean who would believe a black woman being raped by a white man. That would mean that the white man had some attraction towards the negro women. The white family if anything would lie and say that no white man would want a worthless negro woman. Black women were considered dirty and worthless during this horrible time period. To even consider a white man feeling a type of sexual attraction to a black woman was unheard of. Even if the situation was switched around to a black man being raped by a white woman was unimaginable. That thinking mentality is what the foundation of white supremacy was built on. What the audience of this book might not now is that a big reason for the civil rights movement is in fact the mistreatment of African Americans, but the Jim Crow Laws and segregation fueled a lot of white supremacy. The equal but separate laws only confirmed that white was better and didn’t need to be mixed with the poor black people. Anyways the book exposes the true why most of historic events happened. The book illustrates show white men used intimidation to sexual victimize black women, instilled fear into black women’s hearts to not speak of the injustice done to them and enforced a hierarchy of white

Black women are truly mistreated and are constantly abused by society whether it is sexually, culturally, or socially. What I enjoy most about this book is that it told the true of the matter, got to the deep-rooted problem, and shows black women to not settle on injustice. Most of the time, black women are put to the back burner in society. They are constantly considering lesser than in American society. These life changing stories from courageous black women are not taught in school, they are swiped under the rugs of America to reduce the impact that started the civil war movement. Many may believe that black men are the spark of the movement, but they are brainless figureheads that are praised off the backs of black women. Black women are the match that started the fire but aren’t given credit. What I love most about this book is that it gives credit to those fearless black women such as Rosa Parks, who basically organized the entire civil war movement. She did all this for what? To be belittle by a man? Maybe men fear strong, opinionate, and passionate women. Throughout history, Rosa Parks was painted as a nice sweet old lady who for the first time took a stand. When in all actuality, Rosa Parks has been standing up for not only herself, but ever black woman. Rosa Parks was not quiet, she was opinionated, passionate, did not accept mistreatment. I think this book shows that no matter how strong a woman is,