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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
See I want to tweet that, but that’s way too long. Thanks for having me, great discussion.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Thanks! We’re all building on an amazing groundwork. :)
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
The NAACP’s legal defense fund lawyers did that kind of calculus all the time too. But I believe questions of class, color, and respectablity were always particularly focused on women.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Great point Teddy. Danielle, this point makes me think about the reports of rape in Egypt and the racial tropes deployed to talk about the violence. What did you think?
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
I know what you mean, I was surprised when people said my book made them sad, I had recovered from the impact years ago and because so focused on importance of bringing the history to readers. It was hard to think about what it might be like to learn it for the first time, or to see the history in a new way.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
I agree, the story has a tremendous impact there. And I had to put the book down there too. The best work makes you do that.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
And civil rights and black power can’t be so easily outlined. Rosa Parks was raised in a Garveyite household and supported Robert Williams, who was certainly a person who represented the intersection of both movements.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Hey Chana! Glad you are here!
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Yes, I love the plural. Perhaps there are multiple movements, intersecting, working in concert sometimes, with different aims and ideas at other moments.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
That’s a generous view of King… he had a very hard time changing his views of women’s activism. But I will join you in hoping that he would have revised his thinking over time.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
The problem of thinking the Civil Rights Movement was a women’s movement are the assumptions about what women’s political concerns might be. Black women’s concerns did not map exactly with the concerns of white women’s activism. And black women’s activism happened within the context of the larger community.
But these are big ideas, hard to type up in a few sentences. :)
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Yes. The Sherrod’s are the best of us.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
I’ll put it on twitter for you…
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
I loved the way that Shirley Sherrod’s own history of service was so complex, and defeated any simplified notion of “black revenge.” I think history is the best defense against simplified political stupidity.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Exactly, its why I try to avoid using the term racism, and instead specifically describe a person’s action.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
But I think the more that the actual history of the struggle for African American citizenship is uncovered it makes the notion of “reverse racism” harder to defend.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Yes, I was thrilled that Patricia Sullivan’s new work on the NAACP uncovered another even early generation of women field workers in the NAACP.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Its important for us to be open to having further conversations about our work, knowing that we can never master everything and there are always more layers to these histories. I’m glad you are hearing from more folks.
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Such a wonderful story. Makes me as a historian worry about all the small things we miss, how can we recover more of these histories?
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Blair Kelley commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Danielle McGuire, 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
Yes, and whether or not those women were noticed by the mainstream press, their outlook was formative, not just an add on to men’s leadership.
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