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Every February is Black History Month in the United States. These resources will help students research American women in Black History.

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Recommended Books

Biographies (Collections)

100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History by Chrisanne Beckner
Black Women in America (3 vols.) by Darlene Clark Hine (Editor)
The Book of African-American Women : 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters by Tonya Bolden
Fifty Black Women Who Changed America by Amy Alexander
Great African-American Women by Darryl Lyman
I Dream a World : Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America by Brian Lanker (Photographer), Barbara Summers (Editor), Yvonne Easton (Editor), Maya Angelou
The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
Viewfinders : Black Women Photographers by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

General History

Africana : The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience by Kwame Anthony Appiah (Editor), Henry Louis, Jr. Gates (Editor)
The Encyclopedia of African-American Heritage by Susan Altman
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850--1920 by Professor Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

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