These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman--child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi--a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
- ISBN10 1455562831
- ISBN13 9781455562831
- Publish Date 7 April 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Center Street
- Format eBook
- Pages 192
- Language English