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Something Must Be Done: One Black Woman's Story
Peggy Wood
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Description for Something Must Be Done: One Black Woman's Story
Hardcover. Despite Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and pervasive discrimination, a substantial number of African Americans entered the middle class before World War I. This was a life of college graduations, formal weddings, and singing around the piano in the parlor. Peggy Wood was born into such a world in 1912. This is her memoir. Num Pages: 152 pages, 17 black-&-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
Despite Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and pervasive discrimination, a substantial number of African Americans entered the middle class before World War I. This was a life - little known to outsiders - of college graduations, formal weddings, and singing around the piano in the parlor. Peggy Wood was born into such a world in 1912. Her memoir is a parting of the curtains that kept much of this world from view. For this reason, ""Something Must Be Done"" belongs on the shelf alongside Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney's 1993 classic ""Having Our Say"".
Despite Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and pervasive discrimination, a substantial number of African Americans entered the middle class before World War I. This was a life - little known to outsiders - of college graduations, formal weddings, and singing around the piano in the parlor. Peggy Wood was born into such a world in 1912. Her memoir is a parting of the curtains that kept much of this world from view. For this reason, ""Something Must Be Done"" belongs on the shelf alongside Sarah and Elizabeth Delaney's 1993 classic ""Having Our Say"".
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815608776
SKU
V9780815608776
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Ref
99-99
About Peggy Wood
Peggy Wood memorably recounts her journey from Alabama's Tuskegee Institute to Atlanta and the School of Social Work at a time when Atlanta was a Mecca for black America. From the South the story moves to Lima, Ohio, and Poughkeepsie, New York, where she and her husband led black community centers. In 1950, the scene shifts to Syracuse, New York, ... Read more
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