Carson explores, in the American South, the lives of black women among whom she lived and traveled and interprets the voices that have never before been heard. She paints a detailed picture of the teachers, middle-class housewives, young college girls, nurses, domestic servants, and workers who struggled with the juxtaposition between their own identities and those society created for them. Carson shows what a significant contribution these women made to the American scene through their religions, friends, jobs and cultures, but above all through their formerly silent voices.

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