Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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[2019]., Bloomsbury Publishing Call No: 305.48 Hil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a narrative in verse of the history of black women facing chains and incarceration, from the life of Harriet Tubman up to the tragic suicide of Sandra Bland in prison in 2015, highlighting the unique experience black women have faced in America throughout its history, from slavery to the Jim Crow era and up to the modern Black Lives Matter movement.
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2021., Penguin Books Call No: Realistic 305.42 Ken Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The author draws on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization to critique today's feminism movement--and white feminists--and to argue that it needs to address women's basic needs such as food security, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care.
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[2020]., Viking Call No: HI-INT 305.4 KEN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A collection of essays taking aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women"--
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2019., Cherry Lake Publishing Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Ida B. Wells in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a timeline and other informative backmatter.
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2022., Primary, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: PICTURE NF DUS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells--who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader--as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--Provided by publisher.
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2002., Lucent Books ; Thomson/Gale Call No: 973.3 KAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The way people liveSummary Note: Describes farm and village life, city life, soldier life, and the lives of women and African-Americans, free and slave, during the Revolutionary War; and also includes an annotated bibliography.
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c2002., Lucent Books Call No: 973.3 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The way people liveSummary Note: A look at the Revolutionary times through the social conditions of the people.
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[2007]., Three Rivers Press Call No: B Brown Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A first-hand account of her life by African-American attorney Cupcake Brown as she chronicles elements in her life such as the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, and alcoholism. Also details how she endured hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, prostitution, and homelessness before she was twenty. Finally describes her triumphant rise as a well-known attorney.
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-- Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott[2022]., Juvenile, Random House Studio Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A brief, picture book biography of civil rights figure Georgia Gilmore, an African American woman who was inspired by the arrest of Rosa Parks to join the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the 1950s. Follows Gilmore as she meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and gets involved with the civil rights movement.
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[2019]., The New Press Call No: 301.09 Cot Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a collection of eight essays written by the author. Topics range from race and beauty to sexual violence and abuse.
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2019., The New Press Call No: HI-INT B COT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In these eight ... explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom--award-winning professor and ... author of Lower Ed--embraces her ... role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society"--Dust jacket flap.
