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.

"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

Autorentext
ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA. LESLIE BROWN ****is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

Inhalt
Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change