We have been discussing McGuire’s novel thesis that sexual violence against black women and the response by black women to have those crimes investigated and prosecuted is what spawned the civil rights movement. As the movement progressed from the rape of Recy Taylor to late 1960s, the movement learned more and more about how to use media and the justice system to obtain justice for black people. Show the progression through the various crimes and the reactions to those crimes by black people through the book that eventually led to prosecutions of and long prison sentences for white men. What were the advances made in each instance? What were the lessons learned? How did the movement reach the point of obtaining prison sentences for rapes of black women and lynchings of black men? As always, draw upon the text by quoting and citing to support your claims.
I attached the reading. The reading is long but I need it to be read for this assignment. At the very LEAST skim the reading. You MUST draw upon text to do this assignment. There shouldn’t be much of any cited sources other than the text. This is not really resarched based. You can do little research but please use the document as your main source.
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African American women no longer felt safe in their homes, and as they walked around the streets because they would be randomly abducted and then assaulted (McGuire, 2010). Some white men pushed this further by using the allure of financial freedom to assault women sexually. For example, white business people would lie to African American women that they will offer them steady work and better wages. However, when these women showed up to work, these men would kidnap them at gunpoint and proceed to rape them. Authorities were aware of what was happening but rarely did anything to stop such criminal activities from taking place or arrest and prosecute the perpetrators of such beastly acts. Racy Taylor was not the only woman to undergo such degradation; others such as Harriet Jacobs, Rosa Lee Coats, and Betty Jean Owens went through a similar experience at the hands of white men (McGuire, 2010). African American men were also not spared from the wrath of these criminals.
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