McGuire. Danielle L. 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. New York: Vintage, 2011.

== Summary ==
This
book centralizes rape/sexual violence in the Civil Rights Movement. It is a
"new history of the civil rights movement," one that surveys black
women's resistance to sexual violence over roughly a thirty-year span, from
1944 to 1975. Interracial Rape was used as a means to uphold white patriarchal
power and ”was deployed as a justification for lynching black men who
challenged the Southern status quo.” (xviii). Sex was the means to maintain the
South’s racial hierarchy and underscored the extent to which whites fought to
preserve it. McGuire argues that decades before radical feminists in the
women’s movement urged rape survivors to ‘speak out,’ “African-American women’s
public protests galvanized local, national, and even international outrage and
sparked larger campaigns for racial justice and human dignity.” (XX).  Interracial rape was the cause of their
protests. The famous civil rights campaigns in Little Rock, Arkansas; Macon,
Georgia; Tallahassee, Florida; Washington, NC; Birmingham and Selma, Alabama;
and Hattiesburg, Mississippi “had roots in organized resistance to sexual
violence and appeals for protection of black womanhood. The Montgomery
Improvement Association, for example, was built upon the organizing efforts of
black women trying to combat sexual violence. Montgomery movement, McGuire
contends, was a women’s movement for dignity. Moreover, Love v. Virginia becomes an even greater landmark decision when
placed in the broader story of the civil rights movement and sexual violence