In her interview, Irene Williams speaks about her grandmother taking care of her and her siblings when her mother had to leave home to work as a live-in maid. At the age of twelve, Irene Fuller began doing farmwork, and she recalls only being able to attend school when weather did not permit work in the fields. She describes her own work in domestic service—cleaning houses, cooking, and doing laundry—for three or four white families beginning around the age of sixteen. She recalls being paid very little, not always on time, and occasionally she was paid in secondhand clothes. She was not permitted to use the front door or the restroom at her employers’ home. She describes a time when white children called her and her siblings racial slurs. In the 1970s, Irene Fuller and her children moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where family members were already living. She worked for Holiday Inn and Hotel Fort Des Moines. She describes her life in Iowa as being better than her life in the South (e.g., working for other Black people, receiving better pay, and having better living conditions).