15 Books About Black Women’s History Everyone Should Read

April 13, 2014

I recently started to subscribe to a wonderful site. It is called For Harriet. I also follow the site on Facebook and Twitter. She has some amazing informative articles. The latest post that I read on Facebook is listed below, When you go to the post you can get a synopsis of the books that are listed. I think the first book I’m going to start with is Freedom’s Daughter. Which book(s) have you read or which one will you read first?

Remember “thisisyourbestyear“.

http://www.forharriet.com/2014/03/15-books-about-black-womens-history.html?m=1

: Hair Raising Beauty, Culture and African American Women by Noliwe Rocks

: When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings

: To Joy My Freedom Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War by Tera Hunter

: Sister Circle: Black Women and Work edited by Sharon Harley

: A Shining Thread of Hope by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson

: Freedoms Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson

: Killing the Black Body: Race Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present by Jacqueline Jones

: Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 by Kimberly Springer

: Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 by Everlyn Higginbotham

: But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies by Gloria T. Hull

: Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany Gill

: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire