On Thursday 9/22, from 4:15-6:00 p.m. at the Center for African American Studies in the Vanguard Lounge is the first of five speakers in the center’s new First Book series.
Historian Danielle Mcguire (Wayne State University) will discuss her 
award-winning first book, 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, 2010).
At the Dark End of the Street won the 2011 Frederick Jackson Turner Award From the Organization of American Historians and the 2011 Lillian Smith Book Award.
The talk will be followed by a book signing.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Joan Chiari in AFAM at ext: 3569.