Downstairs, Upstairs in D.C.; How White Folk Looked to Those Who Served Them

Authors

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

November 1994

Abstract

THEY CAME from Midnight, Mississippi, and Dawn, Virginia; from Knott, Texas, and Whynot, North Carolina. They are the African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington in the early decades of this century.

Comments

Copyright 1994 The Washington Post

Recommended Citation

Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth, "Downstairs, Upstairs in D.C.; How White Folk Looked to Those Who Served Them" (1994). History Department Faculty Publications. 48.
https://dh.howard.edu/hist_fac/48