Fran Leeper Buss is an award winning oral historian, young adult novelist, keeper of journals, and photographer. She is the editor/author of seven books and major archive collections. A former welfare mother who now has a PhD, she is a community activist and has been a feminist for fifty years... read more about Fran
"I found Fran Buss' achievement very beautiful and deeply moving."
Studs Terkel
New York: Puffin Books, part of the Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1991
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Nailed into a crate in the back of a truck, fifteen-year-old María, her older sister, Julia, their little brother ... Read More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009
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In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist... Read More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993
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María Elena Lucas, the oldest of seventeen children, began work when she was five, then assisted her family as they worked as migrant workers throughout ... Read More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1980 & 2000
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La Partera is the story of a Doña Jesusita Aragon, a Latina midwife from New Mexico, born in 1908. She tells in her own words how at age fourteen, she delivered her first baby ... Read More
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2017
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This work is based on over 100 oral histories gathered from marginal and working-class U.S. women from a variety of racial, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds, including a traditional Mexican American midwife.... Read More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1985
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It brings together the oral histories of ten poor and working class women whose backgrounds vary, but who share a struggle for survival and a quest for dignity in the face of hardship... Read More
