Something Must Be Done.Something Must Be Done Peggy Wood Syracuse University Press Syracuse University Press, founded in 1943, is a university press that is part of Syracuse University. External link
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Syracuse (IPA: 13244-5160 0815608772 $16.95 www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu Retired social worker and longtime civil rights activist Peggy Wood presents Something Must Be Done: One Black Woman's Story, a memoir memoir History or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to autobiography, a memoir differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis on external events. of her life from being born into the pre-World War I American middle class The American middle class is an ambiguously defined social class in the United States.[1][2] While concept remains largely ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use,[3][4] , a group that a small yet significant number of black Americans had joined, to her years of learning at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and the Atlanta School of Social Work, to thirty years of campaigning for civil rights. Offering a unique insider's view of early and mid-twentieth century middle-class black family life, Something Must Be Done offers a much-needed peek into an oft-overlooked social dimension of Africa-American culture, as well as an inspirational chronicle of working for the noble cause of civil equality. |
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