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  • Young and Restless

    the Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

    Kahn, Mattie,
    Kahn spotlights the activism of teen girls. From modern-day reformers like Greta Thunberg and Naomi Wadler to historical cohorts including the Lowell Mill girls, they are capable of lasting, progressive change. (Booklist Reviews)
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Viking, [2023] — 303.484 K121 2023
  • In 2018, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg decided not to go to school in order to protest the climate crisis. The Nobel Peace Prize nominee collects her speeches delivered around the globe, from Capitol Hill to the United Nations.
    Book, 2019[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2019. — 333.72 T535 2019
  • Vanguard

    How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

    Jones, Martha S.,
    The suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, but it did not win the vote for most Black women. Securing their rights required their own movement.
    Book, 2020New York : Basic Books, 2020. — 323.340923 J78 2020
  • The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

    a Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

    Waldstreicher, David,
    Waldstreicher unpeels the life of Black poet Phillis Wheatley, how her writing prompted arguments about race, subjugation, and British rule, and what it meant for the institution of slavery in colonial America. (Library Journal)
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 811.1 W557Zwa 2023
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
    Book, 2019New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. — 920.72 C641 2019
  • After the Miracle

    the Political Crusades of Helen Keller

    Wallace, Max,
    Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability.
    Book, 2023New York : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2023. — 362.41092 K29Zwal 2023
  • The Agitators

    Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

    Wickenden, Dorothy,
    Wickenden's provocative history of abolition and women’s rights is told through the story of three women—Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright—in the years before, during, and after the Civil War.
    Book, 2021New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2021. — 974.76803 W636 2021
  • Suffrage

    Women's Long Battle for the Vote

    DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
    Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Ellen Carol DuBois's high-energy chronicle of the movement for women’s voting rights shares bold portraits of its devoted leaders and activists.
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster, [2020] — 324.623097 D815 2020
  • Daughter of the Dragon

    Anna May Wong's Rendezvous With American History

    Huang, Yunte,
    Huang shares how Anna May Wong fought the anti-Chinese xenophobia, sexism, cinematic exploitation, and ageism that defined American culture in the 20th century to become Hollywood’s first Chinese American film star.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 791.43028 W872Zhu 2023
  • The Woman They Could Not Silence

    One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

    Moore, Kate (Writer and editor),
    As the Civil War erupted, housewife and mother Elizabeth Packard was detained at the Jacksonville Insane Asylum for three years. Her crime? Daring to have an opinion in opposition to her husband’s narrow-minded beliefs.
    Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2021] — 303.484092 P119Zm 2021