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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. Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice

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

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

Author: Sherie M. Randolph
Publication date: 2015

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

Author: Shanna Greene Benjamin
Publication date: 2021

7. Heading South to Teach: The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 1815–1845

Author: Kim Tolley
Publication date: 2015

8. Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women

Author: Steven M. Stowe
Publication date: 2018

9. Pioneering African-American Women in the Advertising Business: Biographies of Mad Black Women

Author: Judy Foster Davis
Publication date: 2017

10. Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

Author: Susana M. Morris
Publication date: 2025