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Selected Books
- Rosa ParksCall Number: Africana Library F334.M753 P373x 2000Historian Douglas Brinkley brings mid-century America alive in this brilliant examination of a celebrated heroine in the context of her life and tumultuous times, revealing the quiet dignity, hope, courage and humor that have made this everywoman a living legend.
- Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement byCall Number: Olin Library E185.61 .S615 2001Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and black power movements in the United States.
- Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers byCall Number: Africana Library E185.61 .W86The 16th volume in a series published by Carlson Publishing focus on contributions of African-American women during the civil rights movement as activists, journalists, students, entertainers, and attorneys. The studies bring forth important, yet little known, individual and collective efforts that demonstrate the extent of women's leadership in the movement.
- Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson byCall Number: Olin Library E185.97.R676 F58x 1998The story of the young woman who became one of the most important leaders in the black struggle for equality. Her intelligence, brashness, and bravery elevated her to a top leadership role in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Fight On!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle For Integration byCall Number: Olin Library E185.97.T47 F73x 2003 (Oversize; +)Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
- Ida : A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.W55 G53 2008Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching.
- Ella Baker: Freedom Bound byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.B214 G72x 1998Celebrates the life of the civil rights worker who helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.B214 R36x 2003A portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century introduces readers to the fiery woman who inspired generations of activists.
- Mary McLeod Bethune & Black Women's Political Activis byCall Number: Olin Library E185.97.B34 H36 2003This book in part examines the historical evolution of African American women's activism in the critical period between 1920 and 1950, a time previously characterized as "doldrums" for both feminist and civil rights activity, Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism is important for understanding the centrality of black women to the political fight for social, economic, and racial justice.
- Quest for Equality: The Life and Writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 1863-1954 byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.T32 J76This book documents the accopmlishments of Mary Eliza Church Terrell. Among the things that she protested were lynching, disenfranchisement, Jim Crow, and employment discrimination.
- For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.H35 L44x 1999Chana Kai Lee documents Fannie Lou Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action, her rise to national prominence as a civil rights activist, and the personal costs of her ongoing struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South.
- How Long? How Long?: African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights byCall Number: Africana Library E185.61 .R685x 1997This book presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women.
- Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.S51 R53 2005This biography of Dr. Shabazz makes it compellingly clear that the widow of Malcolm X was an inspiring force in her own right. Rickford Rickford writes in a straightforward reportorial style as concise and analytical as it is breezy and accessible. He draws together the multiple strands of Shabazz's life by quoting an impressive range of firsthand sources, both friendly and skeptical, and presenting their comments with a judicious disinterest that well serves his clear admiration of his subject.
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 byCall Number: Olin Library E185.97.W55 S34x 2001Schechter places the life and work of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), the pioneering black journalist best known for her forceful anti-lynching campaign, in the context of the early civil rights, woman suffrage, and progressive reform movements in the U.S.
- Sojourner Truth's America byCall Number: Africana Library E185.97.T8 W37 2009A biography that tells the story of 19th-century America through the life of one of its most influential characters: Sojourner Truth. Organized into three distinct eras of Truth's life, it examines the complex dynamics of the times in which she acted, beginning with the transnational contours of her spirituality and early life as a slave.