Black Women's History and Leadership - Ebooks

A selection of ebooks celebrating the history of Black women in the United States and the accomplishments of Black women leaders.

Updated February 2, 2023
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A black women's history of the United States
Berry, Daina Ramey
Ebook
The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this "groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States" (Ibram X. Kendi)-the perfect companion to An Indigenous People's History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the...
The african lookbook : a visual history of 100 years of african women
McKinley, Catherine Elizabeth
Paper Book
Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year...
Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman Black History and Poetics in Performance
Jackson, Gale
Paper Book
In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman "re-members" and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history,...
Remaking black power : how black women transformed an era
Farmer, Ashley D.
Ebook
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought...
Unapologetic : a Black, queer, and feminist mandate for radical movements
Carruthers, Charlene A.
Paper Book
A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights...
Written by Herself : Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892
Foster, Frances Smith
Paper Book
"...substantial contribution to African-American Studies and women's studies." --Mississippi Quarterly "A bravura performance by an accomplished scholar... it strikes a perfect balance between insightful literary analysis and historical investigation." --Eighteenth-Century Studies "...
Black women of the Harlem renaissance era
Bracks, Lean'tin L.
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social,...
Black women's mental health : balancing strength and vulnerability
Evans, Stephanie Y.
Ebook
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My race to freedom
Patton, Gwendolyn M.
Paper Book
Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a young woman, Patton would return to Montgomery, Alabama, just in time for the civil rights movement,...
I'm Still Here Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Channing Brown, Austin.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals. "Austin...
Black women as leaders : challenging and transforming society
Martin, Lori Latrice
Ebook
This book examines how black women have identified challenges in major social institutions across history and demonstrated adaptive leadership in mobilizing people to tackle those challenges facing black communities.Most studies about black women and social justice issues focus on the...
How We Get Free Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta.
Paper Book
The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga...
Emancipation's daughters : reimagining black femininity and the national body
Richardson, Riche?
Paper Book
In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. Drawing on literary texts and cultural representations, Richardson shows how five emblematic...
Strategic Sisterhood The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
Tuuri, Rebecca
Ebook
When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the march's male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings...
Coming full circle : from Jim Crow to journalism
Lloyd, Wanda Smalls
Paper Book
Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism is the memoir of an African American woman who grew up privileged and educated in the segregated culture of the American South before and during the twentieth-century civil rights movement. Despite laws that restricted her housing, education,...
Women rapping revolution : hip hop and community building in Detroit
Farrugia, Rebekah
Ebook
Detroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the...
Princess of the Hither Isles : a Black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south
Alexander, Adele Logan
Ebook
A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination "Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America...
The Collected Essays of Josephine J. Turpin Washington A Black Reformer in the Post-Reconstruction South
Washington, Josephine J. Turpin
Paper Book
Newspaper journalist, teacher, and social reformer, Josephine J. Turpin Washington led a life of intense engagement with the issues facing African American society in the post-Reconstruction era. This volume recovers numerous essays, many of them unavailable to the general public until now,...
Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movement
Cope, Suzanne
Ebook
Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community center laden with...
Rosa Parks : a life in American history
Mace, Darryl
Ebook
"Those interested in learning more about Parks and the civil rights movement will find inspiration in this enlightening work." - Library Journal This book explores the life of this important civil rights activist in the context of the cultural and social history of her...
Black women in politics : demanding citizenship, challenging power, and seeking justice
Jordan-Zachery, Julia Sheron
Paper Book
Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics. This book explores how Diasporic Black women engage in politics, highlighting three dimensions-citizenship, power, and justice-that are foundational to intersectionality theory and politics as developed by Black women and other...
Black women in American bands and orchestras
Handy, D. Antoinette
Ebook
Profiles are presented under the headings of orchestras and orchestra leaders, string players, wind and percussion players, keyboard players, and non-playing orchestra/band affiliates. Features 100 photographs.
Black women and social justice education : legacies and lessons
Evans, Stephanie Y.
Paper Book
Focuses on Black women's experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy. Black Women and Social Justice Education explores Black women's experiences and expertise in teaching and learning about...
Sisters Are Alright, Second Edition: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Paper Book
GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti-black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon...
Notable Black American women : book II
Smith, Jessie Carney
Paper Book
Complement's Notable Black American Women, with 300 additional women who have made significant contributions to American society and the world. Five hundred women were profiled in the original book. Each essay outlines significant achievements, and the public's response to those achievements.
Black. Queer. Southern. Women. : an oral history
Johnson, E. Patrick
Ebook
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such...
Women of color and the reproductive rights movement
Nelson, Jennifer
Paper Book
Uncovers the truth behind the ideas, struggles, and eventually success of Black and Puerto Rican Nationalists regarding key feminist issues of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing
Lesly Deschler Canossi
Paper Book
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly inquiry and...
A pledge with purpose : Black sororities and fraternities and the fight for equality
Parks, Gregory
Ebook
Reveals the historical and political significance of "The Divine Nine"--the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized...
Women civil rights leaders
Sharp, Anne Wallace.
Paper Book
African American women have always placed great importance on helping others within their community. They have long formed the backbones of their families, church congregations, and communities. Black women have also played significant roles in the fight for racial equality. This book examines the...

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