Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves 
Subtitle: 1894-1994
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780393319927
First sentence: On a sticky hot night in 1916, Charleston's black women met at Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church to hear Mary Church Terrell speak on "The Modern Woman."