Black women also experience significantly higher rates of psychological abuse - including humiliation, insults, name-calling and coercive control - than do women over all.And, more than 9 in 10 black female victims knew their killers. Black women were two and a half times more likely to be murdered by men than their white counterparts.More than 20 percent of black women are raped during their lifetimes - a higher share than among women overall.The Institute for Women’s Policy Research reports that: Seventeen percent of black women experienced sexual violence other than rape by an intimate partner during their lifetime.Forty to sixty percent of black women report being subjected to coercive sexual contact by age 18.Thirty-five percent of black women experienced some form of contact sexual violence during their lifetime.One in five black women are survivors of rape.One in four black girls will be sexually abused before the age of 18.For every black woman who reports rape, at least 15 black women do not report.According to the National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community (PDF, 772KB): The social movement widely described as the Civil Rights Movement, emerged out of black women demanding control over their bodies and lives, black men being killed for protecting black women, or ultimately, the fight for black women’s bodies and agency and against white supremacist rape and assault.Įight decades later, black women still need protection from sexual violence, despite the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, “the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, often heralded as the opening scene of the civil rights movement, was in many ways the last act of a decades-long struggle to protect lack women, like Taylor, from sexualized violence and rape.” (McGuire, 2010 digital location 186). Her efforts resulted in the formation of the Committee for Equal Justice, which later became known as the Montgomery Improvement Association. Recy Taylor was walking home from a church meeting in Abbeville, Alabama with two other churchgoers when she was terrorized by seven white men in a green Chevrolet truck, snatched by them, taken to a secluded area and assaulted and raped, being told to “act like you do, with your husband or I’ll cut your damn throat.” (as told by Recy Taylor in McGuire, 2010) According to McGuire (2010), the NAACP sent their best investigator, Rosa Parks, to what was her father’s hometown to explore what happened.
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