1. “My Mother Was Much of a Woman”: Slavery, 1830–1860 (p. 9)
2. Enslaved Women Becoming Freedwomen: The Civil War and Reconstruction (p. 43)
3. “Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles”: in the Rural South, 1880–1915 (p. 77)
4. Between the Southern Cotton Field and the Northern Ghetto: the Urban South, 1880–1915 (p. 103)
5. “To Get Out of This Land of Suffering”: Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900–1930 (p. 131)
6. Harder Times: The Great Depression (p. 163)
7. The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940–1955 (p. 195)
8. The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955–1980 (p. 229)
9. Crosscurrents of Past and Present, 1980–2009 (p. 267)
2. Enslaved Women Becoming Freedwomen: The Civil War and Reconstruction (p. 43)
3. “Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles”: in the Rural South, 1880–1915 (p. 77)
4. Between the Southern Cotton Field and the Northern Ghetto: the Urban South, 1880–1915 (p. 103)
5. “To Get Out of This Land of Suffering”: Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900–1930 (p. 131)
6. Harder Times: The Great Depression (p. 163)
7. The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940–1955 (p. 195)
8. The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955–1980 (p. 229)
9. Crosscurrents of Past and Present, 1980–2009 (p. 267)