"I’m the mother of nine. Four died with the whooping cough, all at once. I was working nights, I asked the super to put me on days, so’s I could tend ‘em when they had their bad spells. But he wouldn’t. I don’t know why. ... So I had to quit, and then there wasn’t no money for medicine, and they just died."
Ella May Wiggins, testifying in Washington about labor practices in the South
Ella May Wiggins, testifying in Washington about labor practices in the South