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

Author: Arnoldo Carlos Vento
Publication date: 2017

2. Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Author: Sarah L. Silkey
Publication date: 2015

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

Author: E. Patrick Johnson
Publication date: 2018

4. Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-twentieth Century

Author: Edith Sparks
Publication date: 2017

5. Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Author: Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Publication date: 2025

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

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

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

Author: Sherie M. Randolph
Publication date: 2015

8. Georgia and Anita: The Lifelong Friendship of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Author: Liza Bennett
Publication date: 2025

9. Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Author: Francesca Wade
Publication date: 2025

10. Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South

Author: Leonard Rogoff
Publication date: 2017