for just over an hour. good evening, everyone. i m bill starr, executive directer of the georgia center for the book, ask we are the host and we are the host for this evening s program. we welcome all of you. rosa parks is one of the truly iconic figures of the civil rights movement. we know her as the older, quiet woman whose tired feet led her to defy segregation on montgomery, alabama s buses back in 1955. her courageous, spontaneous refusal to give up up her seat to a white man sparked the boycott which gave birth to an entire movement. that s what we ve been told up til now. do we really know rosa parks? the answer according to our guest this evening is very definitely no. we welcome to the center for the book tonight dr. danielle l. mcguire, assistant professor of history at wayne state university in detroit. her new book is 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 b
battling this is the use i wanted to feel it was somewhat more connected to the problem. i don t think that was the only reason, not that they chose to do work about cancer, but i saw an opportunity in my thinking about cancer as a problem mainly we didn t understand how a normal cell became a cancer cell and there were a couple new tools having to do with how we measure dna and rna, some with viruses that cause cancer in animals that led me to believe this huge medical problem that affected my family would be amenable to some solutions by taking advantage of these opportunities to do interesting science. this is based on lectures you gave in 2004 at the new york public library. tell us about those and how did they morph into the book? that s a fun question. a famous biographer friend of mine asked me to give those lectures and i didn t read the fine printing. the norton elections, then i saw norton sponsoring the letter signed a contract with me and i had to turn them in
the people who became europeans. what the greeks and romans discovered were people who live in various ways. the talk about what we call culture and for the romans who work in various ways because the romans were imperialists and very interested in who was a good fighter and who could help and had to be vanquished. i followed this german idea into the united states, a french intellectual and thomas carlyle who was a british intellectual and ralph waldo emerson. i spend a long time with ralph waldo emerson, who was the kind of genius of the nineteenth century white race theory. ralph waldo emerson didn t have a lot to say about black people but he had a lot to say about white people. in the nineteenth century, the idea prevailed that there were many white races. so there were people who were considered white. no one could question their white this. very clearly the irish were white. people descended from english or scottish people or german people but they belong to to differe