Danielle L. McGuire was a student at UW-Madison in 1998 researching the civil rights movement when she heard a National Public Radio report about the Montgomery bus boycott. The announcer lauded Gertrude Perkins as a pioneer of the movement. Gertrude Perkins? Not Rosa Parks? McGuire decided more research was warranted, and the end result of her work is ?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.?
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