A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
March 7, 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
6 June 1886, New York City, New York, USA
10 February 1892, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
April 20, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 21, 1903 in Naples, Campania, Italy
6 March 1916, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
23 January 1889, Newark, New Jersey, USA
19 November 1883, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
June 16, 1888 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
February 26, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
June 16, 1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
13 November 1874, Berlin, Germany
November 17, 1876 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
10 June 1895, Wichita, Kansas, USA
17 November 1905, Mito, Japan
May 30, 1907 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
13 September 1903, Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
November 2, 1877 in New York City, New York, USA
12 May 1926, Oakland, California, USA
12 April 1926, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
August 11, 1868 in London, England, UK
18 July 1894, New York, USA
8 March 1902, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
August 21, 1874 in New York City, New York, USA
April 4, 1901 in Seattle, Washington, USA
September 19, 1899 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
5 January 1906, North Carolina, USA
March 13, 1864 in New York, New York, USA
