Summary
"In 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post-Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the wome... Full description
- Prologue : Exodus (c. 1916)
- Interlude : Cotton
- Family Tree : Mother (1920)
- The Pose (c. 1922)
- The Meanest Woman (c. 1926)
- Mama's Boy (c. 1943)
- Love Is, Love Ain't (c. 1943)
- Why She Left Us (c. 1943)
- Family Tree : Daughter (c. 1948)
- How to Kill Gra' Coleman and Live to Tell about It (c. 1950)
- Daddies and Sons (c. 1953)
- Family Tree : Granddaughter (c. 1954)
- 'Tis the Season (1954)
- Man of the House (c. 1972)
- Epilogue : Herstory (c. 1989).