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Unlikely leaders, extreme circumstances: Older black women building community households

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This paper is based on research conducted jointly with Jacqeline Leavitt of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California at Los Angeles. The study and its implications are discussed more fully in our forthcoming book,From Abandonment to Hope. Community Households in Harlem. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Saegert, S. Unlikely leaders, extreme circumstances: Older black women building community households. Am J Commun Psychol 17, 295–316 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00931038

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