[7][8] Peggy Peterman died at the age of 67 on August 19, 2004, at Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg, as a result of heart disease.
[1] In 1965, Peggy Peterman got a job at the St. Petersburg Times writing for the "Negro News Page".
[4] Peggy Peterman's career with the St. Petersburg Times spanned from 1965 to 1996 and during and after the Civil Rights Movement.
With Peterman's coverage over African-Americans via the "Negro News Page", the black-owned newspapers started to diminish in sale.
In Peterman's earliest days writing for the St. Petersburg Times, she received letters from anonymous readers that were traced with racial epithet.
[14] During her career, she wrote about such issues as racially motivated attacks on youth to working on the improvement of St. Petersburg's community.
Peterman said she could look at a community known to many as a low-income neighborhood in St. Petersburg, and report about it as a place that many people would call their home.
[15] In 1997, the Times made the Peggy Mitchell Peterman scholarship, that is awarded to a journalism student at Florida A&M University every year.