Physical Description:print xiii, 209 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
List of figures -- Series Editors' foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : we did well with what we had : remembering Black life behind the veil -- The foundation was there : growing up a girl in the Jim Crow South -- What is expected of you : gender and sexuality -- You are all under bondage, which is true : working lives -- A society totally our own : institutional and cultural life -- I like to get something done : fighting for social and political change -- Afterword -- Appendices -- Notes -- Index.