Lost Friends In the Corridor MINNIE LEE FOWLKES (1859–1945) Birth Story On the plantation or, as some say, down home Battle of the Crater April when de war surrendered Wanderlust Strip Tobacco Like Greens Work Song Questions That Still Need Answering Putting Mother in the Ground Catching Babies Ruddy Seems Like We're Building A City RIOTING BREAKS OUT AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA—Six persons were shot during a clash between whites and blacks in the negro sections of the city tonight. Four of the wounded are negroes, of whom two are expected to die. the Great Depression was hard to distinguish when poverty was always a way of life Night Class, Peabody High School The Tenderness of One Woman for Another Perhaps Minnie Sees Mary and Prays for Her Safekeeping MARY ETTA KNIGHT (1922 - 2007) Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane Founded in Petersburg, Virginia victims killed in 1922 were burned at the stake in a form of torture that most people today associate with the so-called Dark Ages.These horrific acts happened in modern [enter the name of the state where you were born], just a few generations ago. And white people caught the events on film and put the photos in their own family albums Mary perfects the Charleston, recalling it for the next eighty years Dear Doll June 18, 1941 Mary Taken to the Central Lunatic Asylum MASTER INDEX: CASE RECORD The color blue was full of darkness To Calm the Mind a fish has broken from the water its rod of a body Two Months and Thirteen Days Life's An Ever-turning Wheel Clean white homes and smiling black servants appropriately attired in language and dress Child With Playthings in Black and White Tweedle Dee, LaVern Baker The Negro Travelers' Green Book, 1957 remains of the stained glass windows of the 16th Street Baptist Church Rainy Night in Georgia, Brook Benton Ars Poetica #214 The Two White Women I Cleaned For Send Checks Until The Day I Die Or Until They Do Whichever Comes First Mary Admires James Brown's Casket There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and unrighteous WHAT WE HAD TO PASS THROUGH TO GET HERE Commemorative Headdress For Her Journey Beyond Heaven Eden Before the Fall: Southern Pastoral White Children and the Intimate Landscape of Defeat The black mammy, like the southern lady, was also born in the white mind 25 days after I am born because the scale of our breathing is planetary, at the very least The Domestic who is the Bearer of the Present THE LOSE YOUR MOTHER SUITE WHAT SURVIVED Minnie and Mary Live to 84 Where did you come from/how did you arrive? There Is Nothing In Your Story That Says You Should Be Here In My Best Dreams They Are On the Water Refusing Rilke's You must change your life I am trying to carve out a world where people are not the sum total of their disaster Room Swept Home Notes Photo Credits Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements