15 Books About Black Women’s History Everyone Should Read
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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?
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
Ain’t I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race by Maxine Craig
Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
**To see more of what For Harriet has been up to, take a look at http://www.forharriet.com. You can also follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
