In Goldleana’s Hands: Black Women and Labor Choices in North Louisiana in 1950s
Ilsley Public Library 75 Main St, Middlebury, VTJolivette Anderson-Douoning shares the lived experience of Mrs. Goldleana, whose story illuminates the role Black women played as laborers in the Louisiana cotton and timber industries—and in their own families—in the 1940s and 50s. She also highlights geographical differences in Black migration: some left the South while others remained.