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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Girls Are Coming

The Girls Are Coming

Carlson, Peggie

Paperback

Series: Midwest Reflections

Biographies General

ISBN10: 0873513762
ISBN13: 9780873513760
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: Aug 15 1999
Pages: 211
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.22 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburban Minneapolis started work as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasco, a Minnesota natural-gas utility. Peggie Samples was one of the first four women hired by the company into non-secretarial jobs after the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. On the job, she and her beautiful blond friend Sonny met men who were hostile, men who were helpful, and men who were simply flummoxed to find girls in their midst. S'long as a guy does his job, one told her, it don't matter ta me if he's a gal.

This memoir is the sometimes hilarious story of how they learned to work together--and what they all learned about stereotypes.

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