Willie Mae

First published in 1958 and selected by the New York Timesas one of the best books of the year, Willie Mae is a first-person account of a black woman's life and her experiences as a domestic worker in a succession of southern households in the first half of the century. Powerful and poignant, sometimes funny and always honest, Willie Mae is a testament to the courage and strength of a generation of women who struggled to survive with dignity and humanity in the years before the civil rights movement.Kytle, Elizabeth is the author of 'Willie Mae', published 2004 under ISBN 9780820323763 and ISBN 0820323764.