Reading Response 3: McGuire

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Please answer the following question on Danielle McGuire’s At the Dark End of the Street: How does McGuire’s effort to put black women at the center of her story depart from the ways that the Civil Rights Movement is typically characterized? Point to at least two specific pieces of evidence which illustrate the implications of this shift. To receive full points for this assignment your response must: 1) Address all questions included in the prompt 2) Point to specific evidence in the reading that supports your claim 3) Cite anything you paraphrase or quote from the reading with a page number 4) Demonstrate a strong grasp of the main ideas expressed by the reading(s)