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List of Books

  1.  Katherine H. and Keene, Michael L. Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. 2008, University of Illinois Press
  2. Aronson, Amy.  Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life. 2019. Oxford university Press.
  3. Baker, Jean H. Editor. Votes for Women, The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited. 2001 Oxford University Press.
  4. Baker, Jean H. Sisters, The Lives of America’s Suffragists. 2005, Hill & Wang.
  5. Barker-Benfield, G.J. & Clinton, Catherine.  Portraits on American Women from Settlement to the Present. 1998, Oxford University Press.
  6. Decker, Susan.  The Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment, America Feminism Between the Wars.  1981, Greenwood Press.
  7. Bell-Scott, Patricia. The Firebrand and the First Lady, 2017. Vintage.
  8. Cahill, Cathleen.  Recasting the Vote, How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement , 2020. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press. .
  9. Clark, Judith Freeman.  Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century.  1987, Prentice Hall Press.
  10. Clift, Eleanor.  Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment.  2003, John Wiley & Sons.
  11. *Coleman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter – Working Women on the Homefront in WWII. Crown Publishers  YOUNG READERS
  12. oleman, Penny. The Vote: Women’s Fierce Fight.  2019. Englewood, NJ: PGM Press.
  13. *Cooney Jr, Robert P.J.. Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement.. 2005.  American Graphic Press. Santa Cruz, CA.
  14. Degler, Carl N.  At Odds, Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present.  1980 Oxford University Press.
  15. DuBois, Ellen Carol, Lynn Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes, American History, Volume One to 1900 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009)
  16. Duster, Michelle, Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells. 2021. Atria
  17. Flexner, Eleanor.  Century of Struggle. 1975, Belknap Press of Harvard University.
  18. Ford, Linda G., Iron Jawed Angels The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman’s Party. 1991 University Press of America.
  19. Fry, Amelia R. and Zahniser, Jill. Alice Paul, Claiming Power. 2012. Oxford University Press. –
  20. Gordon, Ann D., ed., Select Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Volume 1, In the School of Anti-Slavery 1840-1866 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997)
  21. Gordon, Ann and Bettye Collier-Thomas, Eds. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. 1977.  The University of Massachusetts Press.
  22. Gluck, Sherner Berger. From Parlor to Prison, Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives. 1985, Monthly Review Press.
  23. Griffith, Elizabeth. Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020. 2022. Simon and Schuster
  24. Irwin Inez Haynes,  The Story of the National Woman’s Party (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921)
  25. Irwin, Inez Haynes.  Angels and Amazons, A 100 Years of American Women.  1933, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
  26. Irwin, Inez Irwin.  The Story of Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party.  1964, Denlinger’s Publishers
  27. Irwin, Inez Haynes, Up Hill with Banners Flying (Penobscot, Maine: Traversity Press, 1964)
  28. Jones, Martha. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. 2020. Basic Books.
  29. King, Coretta Scott and Jonah Winter. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Ann Schwartz Books.  YOUNG READER 
  30. Kraditor, Aileen S.  The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. 1965. Columbia University.
  31. Lunardini, Christine.  Alice Paul, Equality for Women. 2013. Westview Press
  32. Lahlum, Lorie and Rozum, Molly, Eds.  Equality at the Ballot Box, Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains. 2019.  South Dakota Historical Society Press.
  33. Murphy, Claire Rudolf. Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage. 2017. Peachtree Publishers. GRADE k – 3
  34. Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat,  (Her autobiography), 2018.  HarperCollins
  35. Oakley, Mary Hostetler and Belinda Swanson, ed., Journey from the Gallows, Historical Evolution of the Penal Philosophies and Practices in the Nation’s Capital (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1988) 
  36. O’Neill, William L.  Everyone Was Brave, The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America. 1969, Quadrangle Books.
  37. Park, Maud Wood, ed., Edna Lamprey Stantial, Front Door Lobby, (Boston,: Beacon Press, 1960)
  38. Parker, Alison. Unceasing Militant, The Life of Mary Church Terrell (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
  39. Robb, Lucinda and Roberts, Rebecca Boggs. The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World.2020.  Candlewick.
  40. Roesch, Sally Wagner.  Sisters in Spirit.  2001, Native Voices Book Publishing Company. 
  41. Rosenberg, Rosalind.  Divided Lives ~ American Women in the Twentieth Century.  1992, Hill & Wang.
  42. hetterly, Margot. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race. 2016. Wm Morrow.
  43. Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 2011. Crown Publisher.
  44. Showalter, Elaine.  These Modern Women.  1979 The Feminist Press,
  45. Snortland, Ellen. Beauty Bites Beast. 2001. Amazon. –
  46. Stansell, Christine.  The Feminist Promise.  2010, The Modern Library.
  47. Stevens, Doris,  Jailed for Freedom (New York: Hard Press, 1920)
  48. Stevens, Doris.  Jailed For Freedom –American Women Win the Vote. 1995, NewSage Press
  49. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. 1998. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
  50. Terrell, Mary Church. A Colored Woman in a White World. 1913 . Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books.
  51. Van Voris, Jacqueline. Carrie Chapman Catt, A Public Life.  1996. The Feminist Press of the City University of New York.
  52. Walton, Mary. A Woman’s Crusade, Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot. 2010, Palgrave MacMillan.
  53. Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill.  One Woman, One Vote ~ Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement.  1995, New Sage Press.
  54. Whiteman, Alden, Editor. American Reformers.  1985, H. W. Wilson Company.
  55. Winter, Jonah. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 2015 . Ann Schwartz Books.   Young Reader – DUPLICATE BOOK
  56. Zahniser, Jill and Amy Fry  Alice Paul ~ Claiming Power.  2014, Oxford University Press.

 

Books Selected by the NWHA Black Women’s History Committee 

 

The Little House of Hope by Terry Catasús Jennings

We Are Your Children Too by P. O’Connell Pearson

Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles

 Bunny Bear by Andrea J. Loney

 The Adventures of Chloe and Chris by Hope Goins

 On Her Own The Life and Times of Madam C J Walker by A’lelia Bundles 

 Vanguard by Martha Jones 

 Standing Tall by C. Vivian Stringer

Having Our Say by Sarah & Elizabeth with Amy Hill Hearth 

 Madam C J Walker’s Gospel of Giving Tyrone McKinley Freeman 

 Prepared for a Purpose – Antoinette Tuff

 Bad Hair Does Not exist – Sulma V Arzu Brown

 We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

 How The One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

 Ties that Bind by Brenda Jackson

 Disappearing Acts by Terry Mcmillan 

Juneteenth:A Children’s Story by Opal Lee 

Checking In by Michelle Williams 

Feeding the Soul by Tabitha Brown 

Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menendez 

My Hair Comes with me: Shifting the Paradigm of What Success Looks like by Sulma V Arzu Brown 

My Best Friend likes boys more than me – English / Spanish versions – by Sulma V Arzu  

The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook – by Marcus Samuelsson & Osayi Endolyn

Good for Me Cookbook: A cookbook celebrating health, heritage, learning & fun – written with children ages 3-5 in mind – https://www.oldwayswebstore.org/good-for-me-recipes-cookbook/ 

Oldways Africana Soup in Stories (“OASIS) – Available to Download

https://oldwayspt.org/programs/african-heritage-health/oasis-oldways-africana-soup-stories 

I Dream of a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America by Brian Lanker 

Dear Mrs. Parks by Rosa Parks 

Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper 

Letters to a Young Sister by Hill Harper

 Becoming by Michelle Obama 

Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama 

A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s South side to the Ivy League & Beyond by Craig Robinson 

The Delany Sisters Reach High by Amy Hill Hearth 

This Kind of Love by Kaelin & Kyrah Edwards 

The Ditchdigger’s Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D. as told to Jo Coudert 

Something to Prove by Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D. 

The Redemption of Bobby Love by Bobby & Cheryl Love with Lori L. Tharps 

Saving Our Last Nerve: The Black Woman’s Guide to Mental Health – Marly Martin, M.D., M.P.H. 

Black Women in Science by PHD Kimberly Brown 

Superhero Like Me! By PHD Kimberly Brown

Queen Like Me: the True Story of Girls who changed the world by PHD Kimberly Brown 

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero 

Africana Woman Her Story through time by Dr. Cynthia Jacobs Carter 

Us Against the World by David & Tamela Mann 

Cooking from the Spirit by Tabitha Brown 

Amari & The Night Brothers by B.B. Alston 

Amari & The Great Game by B.B. Alston 

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko 

Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman by Queen Latifah 

Put On Your Crown by Queen Latifah 

Stacey’s Extraordinary Words by Stacey Abrams 

Deliverance Mary Fields: First African American American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History by Miantae Metcalf McConnell