All We Had Was Each Other

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A remarkable, poignant collection." --Choice "This oral history of black Madison is an invaluableprimary document for students, general readers, and scholars. Interestingly itilluminates the white side of Madison as much as it reveals about what transpired inthe black community." -- Darlene Clark Hine, from theForeword Twenty Black residents of a small Ohio River town heretell the stories of their lives. Madison, though in the North, had its culturalroots in the south, and for most of the twentieth century the town was strictlysegregated. In their own words, Black men and women of Madison describe thedeprivations of discrimination in their hometown: what it meant, personally andculturally, to be denied opportunities for participation in the educational, economic, political, and social life of the white community. And they describe howthey created a community of their own, strong and viable, self-sustaining andmutually supportive of its members.

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