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Part of the emergent field of slavery studies and women’s history, this work reset the frame for thinking Black women’s antebellum experiences in the South.
6. Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, eds. ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814716032/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814716032&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=892dc278b917a14750fdb601d533ed95 Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement]''. New York: NYU Press, 2001.
A collection that assesses the meaning of the Civil Rights era through the lens of Black women.
7. Rosalyn Terborg- Penn, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/025321176X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=025321176X&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=eb7cf276cee0de3e124c41febd21f051 African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920]'' Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998.
A look at Black women and the suffrage movement.
8. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674769783/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674769783&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2b2f108c4546567c2108abb3e123c449 Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Church, 1880-1920]''. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
A classic study of Black women and the Black church, that helps us understanding a critical era in Black women’s history, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
9. Dayo Gore, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814770118/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0814770118&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=08de95cf797806e2a6096a338e9049da Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women’s Activists in the Cold War]'' New York: NYU Press, 2011.
A more recent volume which looks at Black women and radical leftist movements.
10. Stephanie Camp, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807855340/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807855340&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ce8689efaba0c3e8d07b420f5ef9c9cf Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South]'' Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2004.
An examination of forms of resistance in enslaved women’s communities.
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