Soul Sister: The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi

Grace Halsell changed the color of her skin and sojourned through Black America as a "soul sister." Few whites have had the guts to embark on such a hazardous adventure. Grace Halsell's ordeal as a black-skinned American is a unique and deeply moving story of what it is really like to be black in a white world. From Harlem to the Mississippi delta, her experiences reveal the hard and bitter truth about men and women trapped in a desperate struggle for survival, identity, and originality.