USA. Birmingham, Alabama. 2014. Ellamae Carlisle (81) walks to work after getting off the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Mountain Brook where she works as a domestic help. 'I started working when I was 9 years old. My aunt would carry me to work with her. That’s how I learned how to iron. She would show me how to do the clothes and things, so I come up working.'

<br><br>The Cherokee Bend 50 is a public bus service in Birmingham, Alabama which is colloquially known as the 'Maids' Bus' by the local Transport Authority. It collects a group of older African-American women and drops them off, one by one, along the side of the road in the affluent suburb of Mountain Brook. From the road, the women make their way along the long driveways to the homes of their employers where they work as domestic help. Many of these women came of age in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights movement, and have been riding this same bus to work at the homes of wealthy families in Mountain Brook.