Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother's Wisdom Memoir_Gift_Guide For more unputdownable reads from

For more unputdownable reads from Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Only he’s not supposed to be feeling this personal about their project…

and unable to even look at her

"-From the introduction to Flip the Switch

Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother's Wisdom Memoir_Gift_Guide For more unputdownable reads fromInspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize winning team combines heart wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local