Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household

by Emily K Abel, Margaret K Nelson, Margaret K. Nelson, et al.

Book Overview

When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children's nurse, recounting her employment in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Emily Abel and Margaret Nelson, whose mother employed Jones, use the interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813946654
• ISBN13: 9780813946658
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.2"