"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.
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