The Long March for JusticeThis is the never-before-told story of how the civil rights movement began; how it was started in part to protest the ritual rape of black women by white men who used economic intimidation, sexual violence, and terror to derail the freedom movement; and how those forces persisted unpunished during the Jim Crow era, when white men assaulted black women to enforce the rules of racial and economic hierarchy. At the Dark Side of the Street investigates the events that led to the civil rights movement in Alabama in 1944. This pattern of crimes, not only against black women but also against black men, helped fuel the civil rights movement . Even though the primary crime against black women was rape, the entire African American race was raped in the sense that no one was afforded certain privileges, opportunities, or justice. At the Dark Side of the Street takes us back to those dark days, to a world of cover-ups, "justice" from law enforcement and the consequences of such incidents. In Abbeville, Alabama, 1944, the investigation into the horrific gang rape of Recy Taylor, a young black mother of six white attackers is one of the crimes that begins with a vivid description of the rape of Recy Taylor and Rosa Parks' investigation of the 'accident. After the investigation, Parks, with the help of other local black women in Alabama, organized the Equal Justice Committee, which raised money and fought for due process against Taylor's attackers. The Taylor case placed a political strain on dozens of African American men and women nationwide and set the stage for “sexual violence and interracial rape [to become] the battlefield on which African Americans sought to destroy supremacy white and obtain personal advantages...". .middle of paper ......ch as Mack Ingram, a native of North Carolina, in 1951, and Mack Charles Parker, a native of Mississippi, in 1959, confirm McGuire's arguments on the centrality of sexual violence to the actions of both sexes on opposite sides of the color line. .This book provides details about what was hidden from the rest of the world, protecting us from the truth. At the Dark End of the Street depicts the decades of degradation that black women endured on Montgomery's city buses as they went to cook and clean for their white bosses. While examining court files and old trial transcripts, McGuire produced evidence that showed white-on-black rape was endemic in the segregated South. I felt like I had discovered a whole new civil rights movement centered on Black women and their fight for dignity, respect, and physical integrity that is as poignant, painful, and complicated as our own lives.