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African American Women Civil Rights Workers Biography
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Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism


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

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Coretta Scott



Danbury, CT : Weston Woods, [2017] 2017

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Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King


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

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Desert rose : the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King


Bagley, Edythe Scott, author.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012] 2012

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Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision


Ransby, Barbara.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003] 2003

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Ella Baker : community organizer of the Civil Rights movement


Moye, J. Todd.
Lanham, Maryland : ROWMAN and LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC., [2013] 2013

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Fannie Lou Hamer : the life of a civil rights icon


Bracey, Earnest N.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2011] 2011

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Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration


Fradin, Dennis B.
New York : Clarion Books, [2003] 2003

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The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and t


Bell-Scott, Patricia.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 2016

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The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and t


Bell-Scott, Patricia.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2016] 2016

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A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South


McCluskey, Audrey Thomas, author.
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014] 2014

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Freedom cannot rest : Ella Baker and the civil rights movement


Bohannon, Lisa Frederiksen.
Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds Pub., [2005] 2005

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Freedom's child : the life of a Confederate general's Black daughter


McCray, Carrie Allen, 1913-2008
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [1998] 1998

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Hands on the freedom plow : personal accounts by women in SNCC



Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010] 2010

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


Giddings, Paula.
New York, N.Y. : Amistad, 2008. 2009

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Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells


Duster, Michelle, author.
New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2021. 2021

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Ida B. Wells


Spiller, Sara, author.
Ann Arbor, Michigan : Cherry Lake Publishing, [2019] 2019

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett : "strike a blow against a glaring evil"


Schraff, Anne E.
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, [2008] 2008

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If your back's not bent : the role of the Citizenship Education Program in the civil rights movement


Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930-2018.
New York : Atria Books, ©2012. 2012

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Just another southern town : Mary Church Terrell and the struggle for racial justice in the nation's


Quigley, Joan, author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] 2016

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Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters


Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
San Diego : Harcourt, ©2000. 2000

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Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement


Bell, Janet Dewart. author.
New York : New Press, 2018. 2018

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Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry


Perry, Imani, 1972- author.
Boston : Beacon Press, [2018] 2018

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Love, activism, and the respectable life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson


Green, Tara T., author.
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 2022

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary : the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century


Rhodes, Jane, 1955-
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999] 1999

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Maya Angelou



Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2002] 2002

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Maya Angelou, and still I rise



[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS, [2017] 2017

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Maya Angelou, and still I rise.



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Nannie Helen Burroughs : a documentary portrait of an early civil rights pioneer, 1900-1959


Burroughs, Nannie Helen, 1879-1961, author.
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019] 2019

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Open wide the freedom gates : a memoir


Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010.
New York : PublicAffairs, [2003] 2003

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Parallel worlds : the remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the enduring (in)significance of melanin


Alexander, Adele Logan, 1938-
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2010] 2010

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Passionate for justice : Ida B. Wells as prophet for our time


Meeks, Catherine, author.
New York : Church Publishing, [2019] 2019

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Power hungry : women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and their fight to feed a movemen


Cope, Suzanne, 1978- author.
Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, 2022 2022

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Power Hungry : Women¡of¡the¡Black¡Panther¡Party¡and¡Freedom¡Summer¡and¡Their Fight to Feed a Movemen


Cope, Suzanne, 1978- author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Chicago Review Press, [2021] 2021

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A song flung up to heaven


Angelou, Maya.
New York : Random House, [2002] 2002

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A song flung up to heaven


Angelou, Maya.
New York : Random House, [2002] 2002

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The struggle is eternal : Gloria Richardson and black liberation


Fitzgerald, Joseph R., 1965- author.
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018] 2018

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The struggle is eternal : Gloria Richardson and black liberation


Fitzgerald, Joseph R., 1965- author.
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018] 2018

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To keep the waters troubled : the life of Ida B. Wells


Edwards, Linda McMurry.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. 1998

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To tell the truth freely : the life of Ida B. Wells


Bay, Mia.
New York : Hill and Wang, 2009. 2009

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Until I am free : Fannie Lou Hamer's enduring message to America


Blain, Keisha N., 1985- author.
Boston : Beacon Press, [2021] 2021

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Until there is justice : the life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman


Scanlon, Jennifer, 1958- author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. 2016

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