WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
 
MARCH 2022
 
Becoming
by Michelle Obama

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world.  Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
An Extraordinary Union
by Alyssa Cole

During the Civil War two undercover agents, Elle Burns, a former slave, and Malcolm McCall, a detective in Pinkerton’s Secret Service, uncover a plot that could lead to a Confederate victory and vow to preserve the Union at any cost. 
A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry

Centering around Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the U.S. to African American women of today. 
Stop Telling Women to Smile : stories of street harassment and how we're taking back our power
by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

A classically trained oil painter uses her arresting street art portraits to explore how women experience hostility in communities that are supposed to be homes, addressing the pervasiveness of street harassment, its effects and the kinds of activism that can serve to counter it. 
Lifting as we Climb : black women's battle for the ballot box
by Evette Dionne

Explores the lesser-known efforts of such black suffrage activists as NAACP founder Mary Church Terrell, education advocate Anna Julia Cooper and journalist Ida B. Wells in helping African American women obtain the same rights as their white feminist counterparts. 
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