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  • Nannie Helen Burroughs

    A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

    by Danielle Phillips-Cunningham ...
    Finalist, 2026 Leticia Woods Brown Book Prize - Association of Black Women Historians The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonateAt the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and sharecropping—which were the least regulated and lowest paying occupations for ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • U.S. Women's History

    Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

    by Jacqueline Castledine, Anne Valk, Nancy A. Hewitt, Danielle Phillips, Rebecca Tuuri, Ariella Rotramel, Danielle L. McGuire0, Christina Greene1, Jen Manion2, Andrea Estepa3, Kirsten Delegard4 ...
    In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

    Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

    by Jacqueline Jones ...
    The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common ... Read more

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  • Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement

    Freedom's Bittersweet Song

    Edited by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Bryan Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams ...
    The past fifteen years have seen renewed interest in the civil rights movement. Television documentaries, films and books have brought the struggles into our homes and classrooms once again. New evidence in older criminal cases demands that the judicial system reconsider the accuracy of investigations and legal decisions. Racial profiling, affirmative action, voting districting, and school voucher ... Read more

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  • For the Common Good

    A New History of Higher Education in America

    by Charles Dorn ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • In Search of the Talented Tenth

    Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970

    by Zachery R. Williams ...
    From the 1920s through the 1970s, Howard University was home to America’s most renowned assemblage of black scholars. This book traces some of the personal and professional activities of this community of public intellectuals, demonstrating their scholar-activist nature and the myriad ways they influenced modern African American, African, and Africana policy studies.In Search of the Talented Tenth ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Unprotected Labor

    Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940

    by Vanessa H. May ...
    Through an analysis of women’s reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state. Looking at the debate over domestic service from both sides of the class divide, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

    by Tiyi M. Morris ...
    Series Book 20 - Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
    In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi–based women’s organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide aid to the Freedom Riders who were unjustly arrested and then tortured in Mississippi jails. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • A Black Women's History of the United States

    by Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross ...
    Series Book 5 - ReVisioning History
    The award-winning Revisioning American History series continues with this “groundbreaking new history of Black women in the United States” (Ibram X. Kendi)—the perfect companion to An Indigenous People’s History of the United States and An African American and Latinx History of the United States.An empowering and intersectional history that centers the stories of African American women across 400+ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Vanguard

    How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

    by Martha S. Jones ...
    **An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America“Elegant and expansive.” —New York TimesWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryNamed a Best Book of the Year by Ms. • Time • Foreign Affairs • Smithsonian**In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in Ame. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

    Democracy in American Social Movements

    by Francesca Polletta ...
    This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

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