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“A New History of the Civil Rights Movement:” The Unjust Treatment of African Americans

Vincent Signorile

U.S. History II

Professor Parkin

6 April 2017

The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most important movements in the history of the United States. In Danielle McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street, she makes a case for what she terms “A New History of the Civil Rights Movement.” McGuire uses great elements when describing her study, some of which are disheartening and tragic. These include topics of interracial sexuality, violence, rape, and segregation. The vital topics mentioned demonstrate the strenuous challenges that African Americans had to endure over the years, and even during the Civil …show more content…
Even though Civil Right brought an end to slavery that did not put a rest to race relations. McGuire proves this by highlighting various subjects including: interracial sexuality, violence, rape, and segregation. This can resonate with an older understanding of the Civil Rights Movement because before the this movement African Americans were getting raped and getting treated aggressively by whites, and unfortunately during the movement the same things were still going on. Some people could have thought that just because the Civil Rights Movement was going on, that it meant African Americans were being treated the same as whites, but this was still not the …show more content…
Perhaps because no matter how vile the stories she is sharing is, she knows that it is vital information for people to understand our history. One of the more explicit stories McGuire illustrates is the night when four Tallahassee men who were white made a “pact” to “’go out and get a n-word girl’ and have an ‘all night party’” (McGuire, 160). Just the fact that men or anyone for that matter thought that there was nothing wrong with talking that way is disturbing. These four men dressed up with guns and knives and approached a car that had four African Americans college students, two men, and two women. The white men forced the women out of the car and told one of them “’We’ll let you go if you what we want,’ then forced her to her knees, slapped her as she sobbed, pushed her into the backseat of their blue Chevrolet, and drover to edge of town, where he and his friends raped her seven times” (McGuire, 161). This occurred in 1955 during the Civil Rights Movement, which could be McGuire trying to show that just because the Civil Rights Movement is occurring does not mean that African Americans are being treated

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