Arriving in New York from South Carolina in 1946 to work as a cook in private homes, Josephine E. Jones becomes a Harlem activist and, in the 1960s, the first black supervisor at a Fortune 500 company. An Extraordinary Life: Josephine E. Jones is an American story, a Great Migration story, a New York story, a black family’s story, a mother-daughter story, and the story of a woman’s fight for creativity in the workplace.