What a Woman Ought to be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era (Women in Culture & Society)

by StephanieJShaw (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $45.00

  Explores the world of American Black professional women in a society that denied them full professional status. Shaw shows how, in spite of this, African-American families, communities and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative and social responsibility of girls.