Clara Williams Woods was born 26 October 1905 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Louis B. Woods, a minister, and his wife, Annie Ingram Woods, an at-home laundress. In 1937, Ms Woods received her Master’s of Science in Home Economics Education from Iowa State College. The title of her thesis was The Effect of Course Work in Consumer Buying upon Certain Buying Practices of Negro Students. While at Iowa State, she lived with the Archie and Nancy Martin at 218 Lincoln Way, a home where many Black students resided over the years. She eventually went on to work at the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The effect of course work in consumer buying upon certain buying practices of negro students, 1937
Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990010340860102756
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Biography available at HBCU Connections at Iowa State University : Clara W. Woods ( http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Clara_W._Woods )
