In this new biography, author Diane Kiesel tells the story of Dr. Dorothy Boulding, an African American woman ahead of her time. The portrait she paints speaks to us today. Kiesel vividly describes African American life in the rural south and progressive north, over a century, beginning in the 1890s and culminating in the 1990.
The book focuses on the lives of Boulding and those around her. While Boulding’s name may not be as familiar to us as others who worked in the civil rights movement, her contributions were no less important, and in some cases more life changing, than those of her contemporaries.
