Celebrate Women’s History Month and learn about the remarkable women who labored as domestic workers from the 1930s to 1950s and were interviewed for the book The Maid Narratives: Black Domestics and White Families in the Jim Crow South. The conversation includes 5 historians, social workers, and civil rights activists:

Annie Pearl Stevenson is a civil rights activist and former domestic worker who was interviewed for The Maid Narratives.

Charletta Sudduth, Ed.D., is co-author of The Maid Narratives and Early Childhood Consultant with the Waterloo Community Schools.

David Jackson III, Ph.D., is co-author of The Maid Narratives and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa.

Katherine van Wormer is co-author of The Maid Narratives and Professor Emerita, Department of Social Work, University of Northern Iowa.

Catherine Stewart, Professor, Department of History, Cornell College, is currently an Obermann Fellow-In-Residence, and working on a book, The New Maid: African American Women and Domestic Service During the New Deal.

Sponsored by the Iowa Women's Archive and the Iowa City Public Library