Here is a list of resources to help you learn more about Black HERstory! The list is a work in progress!
Books:
- Daina Raimey Berry and Kali N. Gross, A Black Woman’s History of the United States
- Keisha Blain, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
- — Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
- Crystal N. Feimster: Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
- Tiffany Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement
- Tanisha C. Ford, Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
- Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow
- Tiffany Gill, Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, editor, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought
- Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
- bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
- LaShawn Harris, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy
- Tera Hunter, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War
- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
- Joy James, Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader
- Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
- Jessica Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
- Martha Jones, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
- Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
- Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
- Crystal Sanders, A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle
- Ula Y. Taylor, The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
