A rare first-person account of life in the twentieth-century South,
"He Included Me" weaves together the story of a black family--eight
children reared in rural Alabama, their mother a schoolteacher,
their father a minister--and the emerging self-portrait of a woman
determined, like her parents, to look ahead.
Sarah Rice recalls her mother's hymn of thanks--"He Included
Me"--when God showed her a way to feed her family, and hears again
her mother's quiet words, "It's no disgrace to work. It's an honor
to make an honest dollar," spoken when her children were
embarrassed that she took in white people's laundry. Rice speaks,
finally, of the determination, faith, and pride that carried her
through life.
In a document that spans more than three-quarters of the
twentieth century, "He Included Me" presents the voice of a single
woman whose life was rich in complexity, deep in suffering and joy;
yet it also speaks for the many black women who have worked and
struggled in the rural South and always looked ahead.
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