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The brave pioneers who made a life on the frontier were not only male, and they were not only white. The story of African-American women in the Old West is one that has largely gone untold, until now. The story of ten African-American women is reconstructed from historic documents found in century-old archives.
The ten remarkable women in “African American Women of the Old West” were all born before 1900, some were slaves, some were free, and...
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In recent years, the stories of black women in scientific and mathematical fields have finally emerged from the shadows of history to inspire new generations of Americans. Through engaging main text filled with quotes from prominent figures, readers understand how black women who pursued careers in science and math helped shape the history of the world and continue to shape its future. Eye-catching photographs make this complex and influential topic...
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231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
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xviii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era's prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement -- physical, social, intellectual -- the threat...
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Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as...
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"Embrace Your Natural Beauty: Natural Hair Care for African American Women" is an essential guide for those looking to embrace their natural hair and enhance their natural beauty. This ebook provides practical tips, advice, and guidance on how to care for and maintain healthy natural hair. It is specifically tailored to African American women who want to celebrate their natural hair and learn how to manage it effectively. This ebook covers topics...
10) Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
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Katherine Clay Bassard is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles have been published in African American Review and Callaloo.
The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance...
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Treasury of letters written by African American women to Michelle Obama.
"You are me. When I look at you, I see me. I see the young African American woman who, through good family values, strong roots, hard work, and perseverance, has come into her own ... Though your journey may not be easy in the coming days, weeks, months, or years, think of us to ease your burden and pain. Think of those who you inspire. Think of those who you have given hope...
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This book presents the way, in which African American women writers (Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison) have followed the spiritual endeavor of black Christianity as created by early nineteenth-century spiritual narratives to construct a sacred reading of the black female self. The sacred femininity that puts the ethics and aesthetics of African American women at the center of a certain mode of (African) Americanness relies on a...
13) Rosa Parks
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24 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm.
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Presents a short biography of early civil rights pioneer, Rosa Parks, and chronicles her childhood in the segregated South, her special achievements, and the role she played in the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
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This book is a testament of the resiliency of African American women who walk with Jesus. Sistahs is a compilation of their life stories. Sistahs is about the intersectionality of African American women with Jesus, the institutional church, and how a traditionally Southern Baptist women's mission’s organization catapulted them to higher heights and deeper depths in ministry. It loudly echoes the kindship of women on mission who dare to cooperate...
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x, 142 pages ; 25 cm
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"A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus,' a riveting narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times...
18) Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II
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Allow all black nurses to enlist, and the draft will not be necessary…If nurses are needed so desperately, why isn't the Army using colored nurses? My arm gets a little sore slinging a shovel or a pick, but then I forget about it when I think about all those boys over in the Solomons. Double Victory tells the stories of African American women who did extraordinary things to help their country during World War II. In these pages, young readers meet...
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Polygyny, the practice of having multiple wives, has existed since ancient times and is, still practiced in many countries throughout the world. In We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Dr. Patricia Dixon (aka Dr. Ra Heter) argues that the practice is one the African American community should consider adopting as well. According to Dixon, the concept of monogamy was, spread by Christianity and created, an unrealistic and romanticized...
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