Introduction. Talk with you like a woman
To live a fuller and freer life: Black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927
The only one that would be interested in me: police brutality, Black women's protection, and the New York race riot of 1900
I want to save these girls: single Black women and their protectors, 1895-1911
Colored women of hard and vicious character: respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933
Tragedy of the colored girl in court: the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931
In danger of becoming morally depraved: single Black women, working-class Black families, and New York State's wayward minor laws, 1917-1928
A rather bright and good-looking colored girl: Black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928
I don't live on my sister, I living of myself: parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935
She would be better off in the South: sending women on parole to their Southern kin, 1920-1935
Conclusion. Thank God I am independent one more time.