Still, most Black women are not defined by utter despair or skyrocketing success. Most live somewhere in the middle, where we work hard to make a place for ourselves and our children - with or without their fathers. No matter where we are though, for Black women in America the price of deaing with race, sex and class is high. As a group, Black women still are at the bottom of the economic ladder. There is no way to improve the life for the African-American family without improving the conditions for women.
Women carry such a heavy load in our families.
Many of those families are poor because the women work for women s wages. As the 21 st century looms, job prospects for Black women also are changing - for the better and the worse. But those realities are not immobilizers. In face, they haveinspired action. At 84, Height is the premier race woman and the grande dame of the Civil Rights Movement.