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• Million Woman March

  Sisterhood Alive and Well

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  This video is of the Million Woman March that took place in Philadelphia on October 25, 1997. It is estimated that approximately one million African-Americans, mostly women, participated in the event to identify and address issues and concerns of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How It Feels to Be Free

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  Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African-American women artists, politics, and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers - Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson, and Pam…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reflections by Rosa Parks

  the Quiet Strength and Faith of a Woman Who Changed a Nation

  Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005

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  On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of the social injustice. Yet, her simple act of courage started a chain of events that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demanding Justice

  a Story About Mary Ann Shadd Cary

  Ferris, Jeri

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  Mary Ann Shadd Cary spent her entire lifetime fighting for justice and equality for African Americans. Born a free African American in the 1820s, Cary started schools for black children and wrote books and articles. She was also the first black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Be Young, Gifted, and Black

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  This program features excerpts from the 1969 off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry adapted by Robert Nemiroff (Hansberry's widower) and directed by Gene Frankel.

• Reflections Unheard

  Black Women in Civil Rights

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  "Archival footage and in-depth interviews with former members of organizations including Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the Black Panther Party reveal how black women mobilized, fought for recognition, and raised awareness of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement

  a Radical Democratic Vision

  Ransby, Barbara

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  One of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential woman in the civil rights movement, Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an activist whose remarkable career spanned fifty years and touched thousands…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary McLeod Bethune & Black Women's Political Activism

  Hanson, Joyce Ann

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  Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Witnessing and Testifying

  Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights

  Ross, Rosetta E., 1955-

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  The Civil Rights Movement was not only an epochal social and political event but also a profound moral turning point in American history. Here, for the first time, social ethicist Ross examines the religiously motivated activism of black women in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ain't I a Beauty Queen?

  Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race

  Craig, Maxine Leeds

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  "Black is Beautiful!" The words were the exuberant rallying cry of a generation of black women who threw away their straightening combs and adopted a proud new style they called the Afro. The Afro, as worn most famously by Angela Davis, became a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memphis Tennessee Garrison

  the Remarkable Story of a Black Appalachian Woman

  Garrison, Memphis Tennessee, 1890-1988

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  As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians. The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters in the Struggle

  African American Women in the Civil Rights-black Power Movement

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  The rarely heard stories of the brave women at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement Women were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their indvidiual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Bus With Rosa Parks

  Poems

  Dove, Rita

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  From the opening sequence, probing the private griefs and dreams of a working class family, to the emblematic grace of the living legend Rosa Parks, these poems explore the intersection of individual fates with the grand arc of history.

• Too Heavy a Load

  Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

  White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949-

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  Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coretta Scott King

  Rhodes, Lisa Renee

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  Biography of Martin Luther King's widow, from her childhood in rural Alabama to her crusade to keep her husband's message of peace and equality alive after his murder in 1968.

• Freedom Will Conquer Racism and Sexism

  Pawlick, J. Edward

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  A vigorous debate is taking place in our country over affirmative action, but the author argues that this is not the proper debate. The proper debate, he says, should be eliminating the Civil Rights Act in its entirety. The Act has turned out to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom's Child

  the Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughter

  McCray, Carrie Allen, 1913-2008

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  When Carrie Allen McCray was a child, she was afraid to ask about the framed photograph of a white man on her mother's dresser. Years later she learned that he was her grandfather, a Confederate general, and that her grandmother was a former slave.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary Ann Shadd Cary

  the Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century

  Rhodes, Jane, 1955-

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  "... an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement and agency of a little-known African American activist who challenged the obstacles gender and race posed for her." --The Journal of American History "Rhodes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Young, Black, and Determined

  a Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

  McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017

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  Here is the remarkable story of the first African-American woman to open a play, A Raisin in the Sun, on Broadway.

• Civil Rights Chronicle

  Letters From the South

  Campbell, Clarice T.

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  Anyone who says nothing has changed must have forgotten or never have known the daily indignities, not to mention the powerless position, of African Americans in the South before the 1960s. A white California teacher named Clarice T. Campbell wrote…Read moreRead more of this annotation