A grandmother living in a Southern mill town at the turn of the century;
a mother winning the hard-fought right to vote; a daughter born the year
of the Great Depression. Three generations of black women remember their
"childtime" in this lyrical memoir spanning a century of American
history. Their memories are sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but always
vivid. Not simply a chronicle of one black family, this book preserves
the lives and communities of times past for future generations.