The similes enshrined upon these pages are exciting and excellent. They are the faces of our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins and friends. Many of them are the shoulders on which we abide and are linguistic context for the earlier period that has never been told precisely accurately. These faces separate the mysteries of who we are in America and what contributions Black women have ready-made to this land.
The set book is bifurcated into cardinal sections- Family Life, Work, Hair, Resistance, Class, Education, Religion and Community, Play and Inner Life. Each of these sections contain rare, never-before-published photographs, engravings of these women in all walks of beingness. These are the legitimate facets of natural life for every person in the human family, but for Black Americans, all too oft these property come with from a fix of aching and pain. These faces afford verification to wherever we have go from as a populace. When we be taught these faces they go one. That face is the facade of our people, strong, proud, strong and indestructible.