[Looking down street of mostly African American neighborhood, South Side, Chicago]

[Group of African American girls posing on the South Side of Chicago]

[Newspaper founder Robert S. Abbot checking copy fresh from printing press at Chicago Defender]

[Train moving past trackside tenement slums of Chicago]

Victory Gardens, Chicago South Side

Italian Section of Chicago

[Nurse Midwife -- 4 a.m. as hard labor begins, the face of Alice Cooper seems to sum up all the suffering of every woman who has ever borne a child.]

[Alice Cooper with arm flung out, midwife holding her hand]