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[softlyforgotten]

Hi, I'm looking for a book that my friend recommended but couldn't remember the name of. She described it as: "a collection (omnibus) of short stories about the black women living in the same apartment block. set in the 50s or 60s. Some of the stories feature a young activist trying to interest the women in the neighborhood in civil rights, another

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[cendare]

I bet this is The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor. It was made into a TV movie at one point.

[beccaelf]

I remember the tv movie. It played out over a few nights, and I remember one of the previews showed a kid sticking scissors in an outlet and it totally traumatized me.

[mundane]

Is it The Women of Brewster Place?

[piizzazz]

reminds me a lot of If These Walls Could Talk! not it obviously, just reminded me