Praise for Savannah's Black "First Ladies" "The women [profiled here] are valuable role models for women, young and old, to admire and emulate. It should be req

The proof of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation of the impact of African

Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or interna

In this masterful portrait of life in Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War, prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones transports readers to the balmy

Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking