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African American Women Biography
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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake


Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.
New York : Random House, [2021] 2021

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American cocktail : a "colored girl" in the world


Reynolds, Anita Thompson Dickinson, 1901-1980.
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014. 2014

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American daughter


Thompson, Era Bell, 1907-1986.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c1946. 1946

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Anything we love can be saved : a writer's activism


Walker, Alice, 1944-
New York, N.Y. : Random House, c1997. 1997

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Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House


Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.
Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011. 2011

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Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women


Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- author.
Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 2017

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Black foremothers : three lives


Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-2008
Old Westbury, N.Y. : Feminist Press, c1979. 1979

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Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, & transatlantic activism


Silkey, Sarah L.
Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015] 2015

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Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism


Silkey, Sarah L., author.
Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2015. 2015

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Black women in nineteenth-century American life : their words, their thoughts, their feelings



University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1976. 1976

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The book of African-American women : 150 crusaders, creators, and uplifters


Bolden, Tonya.
Holbrook, Mass. : Adams Media, c1996. 1996

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Bound for the promised land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero


Larson, Kate Clifford.
New York : One World/Ballantine, 2005. 2005

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A century and some change : my life before the president called my name


Cooper, Ann Nixon, 1902-2009.
New York, N.Y. : Atria Books, 2010. 2010

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Classic African American women's narratives



New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 2003

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Desert rose the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King


Bagley, Edythe Scott.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012. 2012

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Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family


Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-
New York, N.Y. : Crown Archetype, c2010. 2010

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Finding my voice : my journey to the West Wing and the path forward


Jarrett, Valerie, 1956- author.
[New York, New York] : Viking, [2019] 2019

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Flat-footed truths : telling Black women's lives



New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt, 1999, c1998. 1999

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Great African-American women


Lyman, Darryl, 1944-
New York, N.Y. : Gramercy Books, 2000, c1999. 2000

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Harriet Tubman the life and the life stories


Humez, Jean McMahon, 1944-
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003. 2003

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Harriet Tubman the life and the life stories


Humez, Jean McMahon, 1944-
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003. 2003

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Harriet Tubman : imagining a life


Lowry, Beverly.
New York : Anchor Books, 2008. 2008

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Harriet Tubman : the road to freedom


Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, 2004. 2004

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Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helpe


Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016] 2016

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Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helpe


Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. 2016

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Hunger : a memoir of (my) body


Gay, Roxane, author.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] 2017

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Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching


Giddings, Paula.
New York, N.Y. : Amistad, 2008. 2008

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Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women



New York : W.W. Norton, 1995, c1994. 1995

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Mahalia : a life in gospel music


Orgill, Roxane.
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002. 2002

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Maida Springer : Pan-Africanist and international labor leader


Richards, Yevette, author.
[Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2000] 2000

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Michelle : a biography


Mundy, Liza, 1960-
New York, N.Y. : Simon & Schuster, 2008. 2008

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The narrative of Sojourner Truth


Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 author.
New York, NY : Open Road Integrated Media, 2017. 2017

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Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge


Dunbar, Erica Armstrong, author.
New York : 37 Ink/Atria, [2017] 2017

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Notable Black American women



Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, c1992. 1992

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Originals! : Black women breaking barriers


Smith, Jessie Carney, 1930- author.
Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, 2022. 2023

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Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line


Sandweiss, Martha A.
New York : Penguin Press, 2009. 2009

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Preacher woman sings the blues the autobiographies of nineteenth-century African American evangelist


Douglass-Chin, Richard J.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001. 2001

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Race woman the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois


Horne, Gerald.
New York : New York University Press, c2000. 2000

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Rebecca's revival creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic world


Sensbach, Jon F.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005. 2005

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Serena Williams : tennis champion, sports legend, and cultural heroine


Corbett, Merlisa Lawrence, 1965- author.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020] 2020

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Sista, speak! Black women kinfolk talk about language and literacy


Lanehart, Sonja L.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002. 2002

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Sisters of the spirit : three Black women's autobiographies of the nineteenth century



Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1986. 1986

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Sojourner Truth's America


Washington, Margaret.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009. 2009

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Sojourner Truth's America


Washington, Margaret.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009. 2009

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Sojourner Truth's America


Washington, Margaret.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009. 2011

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Stitch by stitch : Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly sews her way to freedom


Schofield-Morrison, Connie, author.
New York : Holiday House, [2021] 2021

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Telling histories Black women historians in the ivory tower



Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008. 2008

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They raised me up : a black single mother and the women who inspired her


Wilkins, Carolyn Marie, author.
Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri, 2013. 2013

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They raised me up : a black single mother and the women who inspired her


Wilkins, Carolyn (Carolyn Marie), author.
Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2013] 2013

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