Taylor, thank you so much for joining us. She's at her home in Winter Haven, Florida. The author of the book will join us in just a few minutes.īut before that, we are going to hear from Recy Taylor, whose story Rosa Parks first investigated back in 1944. She worked on documenting an epidemic of sexual violence aimed at black women and those stories have largely been forgotten until now.Ī new book called "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" tells the story. Rosa Parks was in fact a seasoned activist and investigator for the NAACP. It turns out that the story is a good deal more complicated than that. The meek and mild seamstress who was supposedly too tired to move to the back of the bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama and thereby sparked a movement. It will have been told again this Black History Month. Now, many people know the story of Rosa Parks. And, today, as we wind up Black History Month and look ahead to women's history month, a story that in many ways was hiding in plain sight. My weekly, Can I Just Tell You commentary is just ahead.īut, first, we go behind closed doors, as we often do on Mondays, to talk about issues people usually keep private. I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
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