Hope and Dignity

Emily Herring Wison is a writer in Wonston-Salem, North Carolina. She is working with Margaret Supplee Smith on a history of women in North Carolina.

• Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Precious Lord, Take My Hand 2. One Dime Blues 3. Green Animals around the Moon 4. mid*wife 5. Cool Buttermilk, Brown Gravy, and No Chickens under the House: A Dream 6. Esse Quam Videri 7. In This Dark World and Wide 8. Sisters 9. Taking Low to No One 10. Ivory Towers and No Sidewalks 11. Seeing a Thing Through 12. As Long as You Give Us the Equal 13. A Woman on Wall Street 14. Mademoiselle 15. "...For Peace and Justice, Freedom and Dignity for All People" 16. You Follow Me? 17. I Was Glad When They Said unto Me, "We Will Go into the House of the Lord" 18. When the Sun Goes Down, You're in a Valley like This, and You Can Look Up to the Top and See the Sunrise 19. The Little Country Church 20. The World Can't Take It Away Epilogue

"[This] excellent book offers moving portraits of women whose lives have previously received little notice. Their attainments deserve to be recorded, for their sake and as a demonstration of how a repressed people live with dignity and hope."-Philadelphia Inquirer "Hope and Dignity proves that there can be trust and truth between women; that a brutally racist society can damage but not completely deaden the giving heart."-Women's Review of Books"An overlooked chapter in American black history earns fresh attention in Hope and Dignity.... Highly recommended." -Los Angeles Times