PD in Your PJs: Recentering Black Women's Activism in the Long Civil Rights Movement

The sexual exploitation of Black women by white men had its roots in slavery, but continued, often unpunished, throughout the better part of the twentieth century. White men attacked Black women and girls on the job, abducted them at gun point, raped them as a form of retribution, and sexually humiliated and assaulted them in public spaces. But Black women did not always keep their stories secret: they reclaimed their bodies and their humanity by testifying about these assaults. Decades before radical feminists in the Women’s Movement urged rape survivors to “speak out,” Black women's public protests against rape and racialized sexual violence galvanized local, national and even international outrage and sparked larger campaigns for civil rights, racial justice and human dignity. Join Dr. Danielle McGuire, author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance, and APUSH teacher Bonnie Belshe as they discuss how to expand the traditional narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in the high school classroom.  

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