Showers of Blessings tells the story of Myrtle Lawrence, an Arkansas Delta sharecropper who made extraordinary strides personally and professionally as one of the most effective organizers in the biracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union during the Great Depression. This biography is lavishly illustrated with Louise Boyle's Depression-era photographs of Myrtle and her world, most of them published here for the first time. While Boyle's images share some essential DNA with the iconic FSA photos from her contemporaries Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, they are singular in extensively documenting political alliances across the color line in the segregated South"--