Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Start Over Subject Autobiography and Biography Topic Race Region North America Era 20th Century

1. (Re)Presenting Wilma Rudolph

Author: Rita Liberti and Maureen M. Smith
Publication date: 2015

2. A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

Author: Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer
Publication date: 2016

3. Adela Sloss-Vento: Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer

Author: Arnoldo Carlos Vento
Publication date: 2017

4. Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History

Author: E. Patrick Johnson
Publication date: 2018

5. Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

Editor: Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, and Maylei Blackwell
Publication date: 2018

6. Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law

Author: Gary L. Ford Jr.
Publication date: 2017

7. Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom

Author: Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
Publication date: 2016

8. Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

Author: Marilyn S. Greenwald and Li Yun
Publication date: 2021

9. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Author: Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, and Veronica Chambers
Publication date: 2018

10. Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay

Author: Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publication date: 2021

11. Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag

Author: Jeffery B. Howell
Publication date: 2017

12. Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir

Author: Josie R. Johnson, Arleta Little, and Carolyn Holbrook
Publication date: 2019

13. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

Author: Stephen L. Carter
Publication date: 2018

14. Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Author: Rosalind Rosenberg
Publication date: 2017

15. Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Author: Imani Perry
Publication date: 2018

16. Louise Thompson Patterson: A Life of Struggle for Justice

Author: Keith Gilyard
Publication date: 2017

17. Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow

Author: Tyrone McKinley Freeman
Publication date: 2020

18. Maria Baldwin's Worlds: A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice

Author: Kathleen Weiler
Publication date: 2019

19. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

Author: Fran Leeper Buss
Publication date: 2017

20. Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930

Author: Laura J. Arata
Publication date: 2020