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Author: Jessie Carney Smith
Publisher: VNR AG
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 842
ISBN-13: 9780810391772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence.
Author: Cal Massey
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2002-07-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780486420523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes sketches and short biographies of: Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Frances E.W. Harper, Ellen Craft, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Susie Baker King Taylor, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, Madam C.J. Walker, Maggie Lena Walker, Mary Leod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Coleman, Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, Marian Anderson, Clara "Mother" Hale, Katherine Dunham, Mahalia Jackson, Rosa Parks, Daisy Bates, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ella Fitzgerald, Constance Baker Motley, Shirley Chisholm, Althea Gibson, Coretta Scott King, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Barbara Jordon, Marian Wright Edelman, Wilma Rudolph, Nikki Giovanni, Oprah Winfrey, Mae Jemison, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Whitney Houston.
Author: Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides biographies and topical essays discussing the important roles Black women have played in American history.
Author: Tom Tierney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1994-02-16
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0486277542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Althea Gibson, Rosa Parks, Leontyne Price, Maya Angelou, Shirley Chisholm, 8 more.
Author: Tricia Martineau Wagner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007-02-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1461748429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male—and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold--until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives. The ten remarkable women in African American Women of the Old West were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and some lived both ways during their lifetime. Among them were laundresses, freedom advocates, journalists, educators, midwives, business proprietors, religious converts, philanthropists, mail and freight haulers, and civil and social activists.
Author: Bettye Collier-Thomas
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2001-08
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0814716024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tells 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.
Author: Ruby Bridges
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 0593378520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • CBC KIDS’ BOOK CHOICE AWARD WINNER Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges—who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans—inspires readers and calls for action in this moving letter. Her elegant, memorable gift book is especially uplifting in the wake of Kamala Harris making US history as the first female, first Black, and first South Asian vice president–elect. Written as a letter from civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges to the reader, This Is Your Time is both a recounting of Ruby’s experience as a child who had to be escorted to class by federal marshals when she was chosen to be one of the first black students to integrate into New Orleans’ all-white public school system and an appeal to generations to come to effect change. This beautifully designed volume features photographs from the 1960s and from today, as well as stunning jacket art from The Problem We All Live With, the 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell depicting Ruby’s walk to school. Ruby’s honest and impassioned words, imbued with love and grace, serve as a moving reminder that “what can inspire tomorrow often lies in our past.” This Is Your Time will electrify people of all ages as the struggle for liberty and justice for all continues and the powerful legacy of Ruby Bridges endures.
Author: Janet Dewart Bell
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1620973367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the larger public. Beyond Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, most Americans would be hard-pressed to name other leaders at the community, local, and national levels. In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles for justice that resulted in profound social change, stories that are vital and relevant today. A vital document for understanding the Civil Rights Movement, Lighting the Fires of Freedom is an enduring testament to the vitality of women's leadership during one of the most dramatic periods of American history.
Author: Jessie Carney Smith
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2012-12-01
Total Pages: 2183
ISBN-13: 1578594251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Achievement engenders pride, and the most significant accomplishments involving people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Events.
