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

Author: Arnoldo Carlos Vento
Publication date: 2017

2. America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice

Author: Treva B. Lindsey
Publication date: 2022

3. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership

Author: Sonya Y. Ramsey
Publication date: 2022

4. Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk

Author: Raquel Moreira
Publication date: 2021

5. Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins

Author: Mary Frances Phillips
Publication date: 2025

6. Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists: Unsung Women of the Black Liberation Movement

Author: Kofi-Charu Nat Turner
Publication date: 2022

7. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Author: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Publication date: 2022

8. Countercurrents: Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal

Author: Amanda Ricci
Publication date: 2023

9. Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical

Author: Sherie M. Randolph
Publication date: 2015

10. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

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

11. Gender, Race, and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do We All Belong to This Country?

Author: Nada Mustafa Ali
Publication date: 2015

12. Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publication date: 2015

13. Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

Author: Danielle Phillips-Cunningham
Publication date: 2025

14. Negotiating Normativity: Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations, and Transformations

Editor: Nikita Dhawan, Elisabeth Fink, Johanna Leinius, and Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
Publication date: 2016

15. Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps

Author: Charissa J. Threat
Publication date: 2015

16. Nursing and Empire: Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States

Author: Sujani K. Reddy
Publication date: 2015

17. Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

Author: Keisha N. Blain
Publication date: 2018

18. Striking Women: Struggles and Strategies of South Asian Women Workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet

Author: Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson
Publication date: 2018

19. Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Author: Martha S. Jones
Publication date: 2020

20. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Author: Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Publication date: 2018