As the bare bones of a job recovery manifests, men are virtually the sole benefactors of its gains. According to a recent Time Magazine article: “not only are men outpacing women in finding jobs; they’re doing it in sectors that are historically female-dominated. According to Pew, employment trends have favored men in all but one of the 16 major sectors of the economy, including retail trade, education and health services.”

Chart from a recent report by the National Women’s Law Center

For African American women and their families, the situation remains bleak. An analysis by the National Women’s Law Center details how black women lost over twice as many jobs during the first two years of the recovery as black men gained, directly undermining their daily lives, much less their ability to create and maintain wealth.

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“This six-page essay we believe is a work of fiction,” said Cohen. “We believe that Mrs. Parks meant for the story to be private. It never should have been part of the memorabilia collection.”

Civil rights historian Danielle McGuire, however, called the essay an astounding find. “Rosa Parks was very likely to have encountered this kind of proposition,” she said.

It helps explain what triggered Parks’ lifelong campaign against the ritualistic rape of black women by white men, said McGuire, whose book “At the Dark End of the Street” examines how economic intimidation and sexual violence were used to derail the freedom movement and how it went unpunished during the Jim Crow era.

“I thought it was because of the stories that she had heard. But this gives a much more personal context to that,” said McGuire, an assistant professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her book recounts Parks’ role in investigating for the NAACP the case of Recy Taylor, a young sharecropper raped by a group of white men in 1944.

McGuire said she had never heard that Parks wrote fictional essays.

“It would be nice to see evidence of that. She never talks about that in any of her work out there,” said McGuire. “It would be more likely that the protectors of her legacy are trying to protect her respectability.”