Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Foundation Was There: Growing up a Girl in the Jim Crow South; CHAPTER 2 What Is Expected Of You: Gender and Sexuality; CHAPTER 3 You Are All Under Bondage, Which Is True: Working Lives; Plates Section; CHAPTER 4 A Society Totally Our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life; CHAPTER 5 I Like To Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change; Afterword; Appendix A: List of Interviews; Appendix B: Sample Edited Transcript, from Interview with Ila J. Blue; Notes; Index
Summary
Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South
