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Truth Beyond Illusion: African American Women 1860s-1950s

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Glenda Taylor and Mary Taylor put together a collection of wonderful images in TRUTH BEYOND ILLUSION. African American women have been demeaned, sold, and thought of as nothing. These images, from the 1860s to the 1950s, show that there was so much more to African American women. The real story of African American women are in the eyes of the women in the photos. Glenda and Mary collected these photos from antique shows and from anyone who would give them pictures. To think that people have just trashed their families' memories was unthinkable to them. Any of these women can easily be one of our ancestors.

Glenda Taylor starts the book off by telling how she became motivated to do this project. It started with the controversial Don Imus and his comment about the Rutgers' basketball players. So this book is a tribute to all the African American women; to show us that we are beautiful and wonderfully made. I recommend this book as a collector's item.

Donnica Copeland

APOOO BookClub

Sista Talk Book Club

Truth Beyond Illusion is illustrious and empowering. Enchanted windows

into earlier times where formality among American Moors of every level of society

was as common as wearing lingerie or thug fashions are today. Most mesmerizing

of all were the photographs from the earlier periods of time in which a hint of a

smile was absent 97% of the time or better.

Was this because of the puritan values

or the state of the black dis-union or a combination of both I don't know but it was

glaring and in sharp contrast to the finery of wondrous hairstyles and surprisingly

gorgeous couture.

The more we come forward in time the more joyful the expressions especially from

World War II forward. Glenda Taylor knows countless ways to empower her Race and

herald her ancestry which she display in previous books. This book is a real treasure!