Synopses & Reviews
In the words of Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., it is "an important contribution to social history to which students will constantly turn."
Review
"From these pages emerge, in truth, a new woman, almost unknown to historians when this book was published." Anne Firor Scott
Synopsis
Out of a wealth of documentation, and often from the words of the people themselves, Spruill's account brings these women's lives out of the shadows-opening a usable past that was not there before.