{"product_id":"something-must-be-done-one-black-womans-story-hardcover","title":"Something Must Be Done: One Black Woman's Story - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeggy Wood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite 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 \u003ci\u003eHaving Our Say. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeggy Wood memorably recounts her journey from Alabama's Tuskegee Institute to Atlanta and the School of Social Work. 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, where Peggy Wood was a social worker and active as a campaigner for civil rights for more than three decades.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeggy Wood\u003c\/b\u003e is a retired social worker and longtime civil rights activist. She lives in Syracuse, New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eParker Brown\u003c\/b\u003e, to whom this memoir was dictated, is a much-published tax attorney and oral historian. He lives in Syracuse, New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.26 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757826277664,"sku":"9780815608776","price":10.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8b590182cd2ef7e25daa8043eb05f538.webp?v=1780112660","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/something-must-be-done-one-black-womans-story-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}