Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez cultivated revolution

cultivated revolution

and use it for good

This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me

It's a love letter to Black women who dare to speak up

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez cultivated revolutionMontgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her along a dusty country road to a worn down one room cabin, Civil is shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and