After moving to New York from South Carolina in 1946 to work as a cook in private homes, Josephine E. Jones–a South Carolina sharecropper’s daughter born in 1920–becomes a Harlem activist, and, in the 1960s, perhaps the first black supervisor at a Fortune 500 company.
An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones by Wendy Jones is an American story, a Great Migration story, a New York story, a black family’s story, a mother-daughter story, and the story of a woman’s fight for creativity in the workplace. Register
