L. Walker shares her experiences growing up and working in Mississippi. She describes starting work at the age of nine doing childcare, cooking, and other domestic work. Walker recalls doing seasonal sharecropping work in the field and attending school sporadically for three months out of the year. She recounts a range of experiences with different white families she worked for. She describes one of the white women she worked for as being nice and “kind of like my mom.” In other households, there was a strong practice of segregation (e.g., Black employees were not permitted to use the restroom and had to eat outside). Walker recalls an experience when she was thirteen years old in which a white storekeeper attempted to sexually assault her. She connects her experience to stories of other Black girls in the area being sexually assault and killed by white men. Walker also speaks about white people in both Des Moines, Iowa, and Mississippi using a racial slur to refer to her.