In this excerpt from Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement, Premilla Nadasen writes about a forgotten, complicated milestone in domestic workers’ struggle for dignity and respect for their labor. In Georgia, Maids’ Honor Day was proclaimed an official holiday in 1972 by Governor Jimmy Carter, and similar such days of recognition were instituted in other states and cities around the country thereafter. There is no such day of recognition today, as far as we know.
