A Black Woman's Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons about Race, Class, and Gender in America(Black Studies and Critical Thinking)

Series: Black Studies and Critical Thinking

A Black Woman's Journey follows Mildred Sirls as a young Black girl in rural east Texas in the 1930s who picked cotton to help her family survive, to her adulthood years as Dr. Mildred Pratt who influenced hundreds of students and empowered a community.