Three long stories that draw the reader into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises.

    Fanny Lou Hamer, Civil Rights activist from Mississippi, that was recorded on tape and edited by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) members Julius Lester and Mary Varela. This book describes life as a sharecropper in the Deep South during the Jim Crow Era and includes black and white photographs. It is a contemporaneous account of Mrs. Hamer's Civil Rights activism.