Thursday, march 27 | 7:00PM

An Intimate Experience at the Black Box
Back by popular demand, join us for Women’s History Month and hear untold stories of the women of the Civil Rights. Engage with Dr. Danielle McGuire, a storyteller extraordinaire, and learn from the experiences that shaped her life into an acclaimed historian. Recognized by Oprah Winfrey, her book, At the Dark End of the Street, told the surprising history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began when Rosa Parks investigated the rape of Recy Taylor in 1944.

Join us for this incredible opportunity to dive into an American story everyone thinks they know. Plus, learn how a high school history teacher’s assignment helped a white girl from Wisconsin become a go-to source for the Civil Rights Movement.

Danielle McGuire, PhD, is an award-winning Civil Rights historian, public speaker and author of 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 (Knopf). She is the editor of Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement; wrote the forward for John Hersey’s Algiers Motel Incident; and has contributed chapters to many other books related to the Black Freedom Struggle. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and has appeared on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Headline News, National Public Radio, and BookTV. Her popular essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Detroit Free Press, Bridge Magazine, Washington Post, Huffington Post and CNN.com. She serves as a consultant on documentary films such as The Rape of Recy Taylor and You Belong to Me: The Ruby McCollum Story. She also helps curate educational historical tours and civil rights-related curricula for secondary schools and serves on the advisory board of History Studio. She is currently at work on a book about police violence in Detroit in 1967, to be published by Knopf. 

Book signing available - Dark End of the Street.