It Goes Way Back

This collection of essays, remembrances, reports and articles tells the story of what it was like to be set apart in a land and system created for white people from the perspective of, well, Black women in white America. Women of all types--slaves, both current and former, blue collar, white collar and professional--share their experiences and perceptions of what they have done to get by, or how the culture has blocked their path(s). Published in 1972, this older but sadly, still pertinent book has a lot to teach us all. I challenge anyone to read it and say that the "American Dream" is just there for the taking. Unfortunately, it has been, and still is, just a dream for far too many.