Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments (page xi)
- Introduction (page 3)
- 1. "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery (page 11)
- 2. Freed Women? The Civil War and Reconstruction (page 44)
- 3. A Bridge of "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": The Rural South, 1880-1915 (page 79)
- 4. Between the Cotton Field and the Ghetto: The Urban South, 1880-1915 (page 110)
- 5. "To Get Out of This Land of Sufring": Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900-1930 (page 152)
- 6. Harder Times: The Great Depression (page 196)
- 7. The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940-1955 (page 232)
- 8. The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955-1980 (page 275)
- Epilogue: 1984 (page 322)
- Appendices (page 331)
- Notes (page 343)
- Selected Bibliography (page 406)
- Index (page 416)