Annie Pearl Stevenson discusses her experiences working in domestic service in Mississippi. Her interview focuses on her experiences doing housework for an Italian-American family. Stevenson recalls that her employer, who owned a restaurant, brought lunch home for her. When he did not, she was permitted to pick food up from the restaurant, but only via the back door. She wore a work uniform and was made to use the side door to the house. She recalls helping her aunt, Pearline Jones, clean William Faulkner’s home on one occasion. In addition to her work in domestic service, the interview touches on other experiences of racism in her life and in Mississippi more broadly: her inability to enroll at Ole Miss due to segregation; the impact that the lynching of Emmett Till had on her; and an incident in which both the ticket clerk and the bus driver at her usual bus station called her a racial slur. She recalls supporting James Meredith on the day he integrated the University of Mississippi, taking the bus from Taylor to Oxford, as white crowds shattered the bus windows and called them racial slurs. Stevenson also discusses her experiences in domestic service after moving to Waterloo, Iowa. She describes the differences between domestic work in the South and Iowa being that in Iowa she was able to use the front door, did not have to wear a uniform, and received better pay.