A garden so brilliant with colors, so original in its design': Rural African American women, gardening, progressive reform, and the foundation of an African American environmental perspective

From: Environmental History | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

"Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength-in search of my mother's garden, I found my own."'

Alice Walker, In Search of our Mother's Gardens, 1967

TO PLANT their flower and vegetable gardens, African American women used their hands-darkly creviced or smoothly freckled; their arms-some wiry, others muscled; and their shoulders and backs-one broad and another thin. They dropped small seeds into the soil with their veined hands. They wrapped their arms around freshly cut flowers to decorate tables in their homes. They bent their shoulders and backs to compost hay, ...

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