![]() ![]() That treatment included rape and other sexual violence. ![]() She and other black women had long complained about the racist treatment they received on the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks, however, was no victim of anything. She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist–the spirit of the times.” the victim–emphasis mine–of both the forces of history and the forces of destiny. Forty-two years old at the time of the bus boycott, she was described by Martin Luther King Jr, as “. Had she been Catholic she surely would have been canonized by now St. Historically she has been depicted as a prim, virtuous, diminutive lady who was merely too tired after a long day at work to move from her seat. Rosa Parks is often referred to as the Mother of the modern civil rights movement. ![]() 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 ![]()
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