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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. Amy Jacques Garvey: Selected Writings from the Negro World, 1923–1928

Author: Amy Jacques Garvey
Publication date: 2016

4. And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists

Author: Helen LaKelly Hunt
Publication date: 2017

5. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Editor: Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan
Publication date: 2018

6. Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics: Political Development and Black Women

Editor: Michael Mitchell and David Covin
Publication date: 2016

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

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

8. Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice

Editor: Dolores Delgado Bernal, Rebeca Burciaga, and Judith Flores Carmona
Publication date: 2016

9. Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body

Author: Riché Richardson
Publication date: 2021

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

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

11. Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism

Author: Liza Taylor
Publication date: 2022

12. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

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

13. Hazel Brannon Smith: The Female Crusading Scalawag

Author: Jeffery B. Howell
Publication date: 2017

14. Hope in the Struggle: A Memoir

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

15. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Editor: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Publication date: 2017

16. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

Author: Kabria Baumgartner
Publication date: 2019

17. It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference

Editor: Laura L. Lovett, Rachel Jessica Daniel, and Kelly N. Giles
Publication date: 2022

18. Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora

Author: Joanna Dee Das
Publication date: 2017

19. LGBTQ Social Movements

Author: Lisa M. Stulberg
Publication date: 2018

20. Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Author: Janet Dewart Bell
Publication date: 2018