"My mother was much of a woman": slavery
Freed women? The Civil War and reconstruction
A bridge of "bent backs and laboring muscles": the rural south, 1880-1915
Between the cotton field and the ghetto: the urban south, 1880-1915
"To get out of this land of sufring": black women migrants to the north, 1900-1930
Harder times: the Great Depression
The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955
The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980.
"My mother was such a woman" : slavery, 1830-1860
Enslaved women becoming freedwomen : the Civil War and reconstruction
"Bent backs and laboring muscles" : in the rural South, 1880-1915
Between the Southern cotton field and the Northern ghetto : the urban South, 1880-1915
"To get out of this land of sufring" : black women migrants to the North, 1900-1930
Harder times : the Great Depression
The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955
The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980
Crosscurrents of past and present, 1980-2009.