Summary of Danielle L. McGuire's At the Dark End of the Street

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#1 Rosa Parks’s father, James McCauley, was a builder and stonemason who had a light coloration that mocked the new segregation laws. He built beautiful homes for white families in the Black Belt region of Alabama.

#2 Leona and James McCauley were married in 1912, and they moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, where McCauley went to work for Booker T. Washington’s famed Tuskegee Institute. Leona was not particularly fond of her in-laws, and she decided to stay behind with her daughter Rosa when her husband wanted to move north.

#3 Rosa Parks returned to Abbeville to investigate the rape of Recy Taylor. She had not seen her father in years, but she remained connected to the black community there. She could count on the McCauleys for a hot meal and a warm bed.

#4 After the gang rape, Taylor must have been in extreme pain and shock. She could not remember what had happened, but her family and friends listened quietly as she told them what had happened. She identified the car that the rapists had used, and it was registered to one of the men she had named.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669388432

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#1

Rosa Parks’s father, James McCauley, was a builder and stonemason who had a light coloration that mocked the new segregation laws. He built beautiful homes for white families in the Black Belt region of Alabama.

#2

Leona and James McCauley were married in 1912, and they moved to Tuskegee, Alabama, where McCauley went to work for Booker T. Washington’s famed Tuskegee Institute. Leona was not particularly fond of her in-laws, and she decided to stay behind with her daughter Rosa when her husband wanted to move north.

#3

Rosa Parks returned to Abbeville to investigate the rape of Recy Taylor. She had not seen her father in years, but she remained connected to the black community there. She could count on the McCauleys for a hot meal and a warm bed.

#4

After the gang rape, Taylor must have been in extreme pain and shock. She could not remember what had happened, but her family and friends listened quietly as she told them what had happened. She identified the car that the rapists had used, and it was registered to one of the men she had named.

#5

Rosa Parks was a member of the Montgomery NAACP for only a year when she met with Recy Taylor in 1944. She was already a seasoned activist. Her quiet demeanor hid a steely determination to battle white supremacy.

#6

After World War I, the Alabama Klan unleashed a wave of terror to return African Americans to their proper place in the segregated social order.

#7

In 1931, in Scottsboro, Alabama, nine African American boys were convicted of raping two white women and were sentenced to die in the electric chair. The case aroused anger and protest around the country.

#8

Parks was also a part of the secret meetings in Montgomery to raise money for the Scottsboro boys. She and other activists worked on behalf of racial justice during the dark days of the