DOCUMENT 35 An Activist Academic Examines the Real Lives of African American Single Mothers (1986)

This essay, originally published as a pamphlet by Kitchen Table Press, draws attention to the hardships and obstacles that black single mothers face. The author, Barbara Omolade, counters the assessment that black single mother families are pathological and describes the formation of the Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers, a self-help organization in Brooklyn.