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Discuss the challenge, which Hunter outlines in her preface, of writing the history of working-class African-American women. How does Hunter use her sources to overcome some of these challenges?
Compare and contrast the New South and the Old South. What role did African-American women’s labor play in the New South?
Upon what resources and strengths did working-class black women rely to organize the washerwomen’s strike?