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• How We Get Free

  Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

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  "The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s." (Also available as ebook and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Combahee River Collective Statement

  Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies and Eighties

  Combahee River Collective

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  "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." A vital text on intersectional Black Feminism.

• All the Women Are White, All the Black Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave

  Black Women's Studies

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  Essays study the history and position of Black women in America, discussing such topics as racism, Black feminism, and Black women's literature.

• Comrade Sisters

  Women of the Black Panther Party

  Shames, Stephen,

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  "While these remarkable women of all ages and diverse backgrounds were regularly making headlines agitating, protesting, and organizing, off-stage these same women were building communities and enacting social justice, providing food, housing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Taste of Power

  a Black Woman's Story

  Brown, Elaine, 1943-

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  "Elaine's account of her life at the highest levels of the Panthers' hierarchy illuminates more than the pain of sexism and the struggle against racism: The male power rituals she recounts carried the seeds of the Black Panther Party's destruction.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Power Hungry

  Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement

  Cope, Suzanne, 1978-

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  available as ebook and downloadable audiobook

• Wake

  the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

  Hall, Rebecca, 1963-

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  "An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records; and where the historical record goes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Year of the Tiger

  An Activist's Life

  Wong, Alice, 1974-

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  "...Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. " (Available as downloadable audiobook and ebook.)

• ¡Sí, Ella Puede!

  the Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers

  Sowards, Stacey K.,

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  "A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warriors Don't Cry

  a Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

  Beals, Melba

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  This memoir is written by one member of the Little Rock Nine who fought against racial segregation in schools. Available as streaming audiobook.

• Women of the Underground: Resistance

  Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves

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• Time to Rise

  US Women of Color : Issues and Strategies

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  By Maylei Blackwell who writes on women in the Chicano movement.

• Chicanas Speak Out

  Women : New Voice of La Raza

  Vidal, Mirta,

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• Revolutionary Mothering

  Love on the Front Lines

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  "Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and & 80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation." (Also available as streaming audiobook,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

  Anzaldúa, Gloria

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  "...independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chicana Feminist

  Cotera, Martha,

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• This Bridge Called My Back

  Writings by Radical Women of Color

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• A Dolores Huerta Reader

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  "Farm labor leader and civil rights advocate Dolores Huerta first worked with César Chávez as a community organizer in Mexican American areas of southern California in the mid-1950s."

• Dolores

  Rebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother.

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• Heartbeat of Struggle

  the Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama

  Fujino, Diane Carol

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  "Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this courageous woman, the most prominent Asian American activist to emerge during the 1960s."