History Books on Black Women Rights
If you are looking for detailed history books on Black women rights, you might want to check out some of these titles that I found from web searches.
-Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper. This book explores how Black women intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries challenged racist and sexist ideas and shaped the contours of contemporary Black feminism.
- African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn. This book traces the activism of Black women suffragists from the antebellum era to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting their contributions and challenges in the fight for women’s rights.
- Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy by LaShawn Harris. This book examines how Black women in New York City engaged in various forms of informal labor and entrepreneurship to survive and resist racial and gender oppression in the early twentieth century.
- Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century by Nazera Sadiq Wright. This book analyzes literary and cultural representations of Black girls in the nineteenth century, showing how they were constructed as social problems, agents of progress, and sources of knowledge.
- Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality by Marcia Walker-McWilliams. This book tells the story of Addie Wyatt, a prominent labor leader, civil rights activist, and feminist who rose from poverty to national prominence in the twentieth century.
- Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. by Treva B. Lindsey. This book examines how Black women in Washington, D.C. challenged racial and gender norms and redefined their identities and roles in the early twentieth century.
- A Voice from the South by Anna Julia Cooper. This book is a classic work of Black feminist thought that offers a critique of racism, sexism, and classism from the perspective of a Black woman educator and activist in the late nineteenth century.
- A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. This book offers a sweeping overview of Black women’s lives and experiences from 1619 to the present, highlighting their resilience, creativity, and leadership in various spheres of American society.
