Female Revolutionary Bibliography
Angela Davis
345.7 AYM
Laws and trials that created history / by Brandt Aymar and Edward Sagarin 1974
The courtroom trials of such figures as Joan of Arc, Socrates, Sacco and Vanzetti,
Eichmann, and Angela Davis are reviewed
782.42 DAV
Blues legacies and Black feminism: Gertrude "Ma" rainey, Bessie Smith, and
Billie Holiday / Angela Y. Davis 1998
920 GAT
The African-American century : how Black Americans have shaped our
country / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West 2000
920 KAL
Political activists of the 1960s / Stuart A. Kallen 2004
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Dagmar Wilson -- Tom Hayden -- Cesar Chavez -- Betty
Friedan -- Abbie Hoffman -- Angela Davis.
Dorothy Day
920 NIE
Seven women: portraits from the American radical tradition / by Judith Nies 1978
Brief biographies of seven women whose philosophies and actions have had great
impact on American society. Included are Sarah Moore Grimke, Harriet Tubman,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mother Jones, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Louise Strong,
and Dorothy Day.
Emma Goldman
303.6 ZIN
Artists in times of war / Howard Zinn 2003
Artists in times of war -- Emma Goldman, anarchism, and war resistance -- Stories
Hollywood never tells -- Pamphleteering in America.
920 FEL
100 American women who shaped American history / Deborah G. Felder 2005
Emma Goldman -- Alice Hamilton -- Florence Sabin -- Gertrude Stein -- Mary McLeod
-- Margaret Sanger -- Frances Perkins -- Helen Keller -- Jeanette Rankin – Rose
Julia Butterfly Hill
333.75 HIL
The legacy of Luna : the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save
the redwoods / Julia Butterfly Hill 2000
Roya Johnson
B HAKAKIAN
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran/ Roya
Hakakian 2005
Aung San Suu Kyi
920 KRU
Lives of extraordinary women : rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors
thought) / written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt 2000
Cleopatra -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Joan of Arc -- Isabella I -- Elizabeth I -- Nzingha -Catherine the Great -- Marie Antoinette -- Victoria -- Harriet Tubman -- Tz'u-hsi -Gertrude Bell -- Jeannette Rankin -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Golda Meir -- Indira Gandhi - Eva Peron -- Wilma Mankiller -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Rigoberta Menchu
Wilma Mankiller
920 ALL
As long as the rivers flow : the stories of nine Native Americans / by Paula
Gunn Allen and Patricia Clark Smith 1996
Weetamoo -- Geronimo -- Will Rogers -- Jim Thorpe -- Maria Tallchief -- Senator Ben
Nighthorse Campbell -- Wilma Pearl Mankiller -- Michael Naranjo -- Louise Erdrich.
920 FEL
100 American women who shaped American history / Deborah G. Felder 2005
Wilma Mankiller
920 KRU
Lives of extraordinary women : rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors
thought) / written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt 2000
Cleopatra -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Joan of Arc -- Isabella I -- Elizabeth I -- Nzingha -Catherine the Great -- Marie Antoinette -- Victoria -- Harriet Tubman -- Tz'u-hsi -Gertrude Bell -- Jeannette Rankin -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Golda Meir -- Indira Gandhi - Eva Peron -- Wilma Mankiller -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Rigoberta Menchu
920 LIN
Champions of equality / Laurie Lindop 1997
Biographies of the following women who have made contributions toward furthering
equality: Margarethe Cammermeyer, Marian Wright Edelman, Myrlie Evers-Williams,
Elizabeth Glaser, Delores Huerta, Patricia Ireland, Maggie Kuhn, Wilma Mankiller,
Vilma Martinez, and Eleanor Holmes Norton.
970.004 DO
Do all Indians live in tipis? : questions and answers from the National
Museum of the American Indian / foreword by Rick West ; introduction by
Wilma Mankiller 2007
Mary Crow Dog
B MARY CROW DOG Lakota woman / by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes 1990
Meena
B MEENA
Meena, heroine of Afghanistan : the martyr who founded RAWA, the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan / Melody Ermachild
Chavis 2003
Rigoberta Menchu
B MENCHU
Rigoberta Menchu / Caroline Lazo 1994
B MENCHU c1,2,3
I, Rigoberta Menchu : an Indian woman in Guatemala / edited and introduced by
Elisabeth Burgos-Debray ; translated by Ann Wright 1984
Recounts the life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman who
turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt and religious commitment
after her brother and parents were murdered by the Guatemalan military; and sheds
light on everyday life in Latin America's Indian communities.
920 KRU
Lives of extraordinary women : rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors
thought) / written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt 2000
Cleopatra -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Joan of Arc -- Isabella I -- Elizabeth I -- Nzingha -Catherine the Great -- Marie Antoinette -- Victoria -- Harriet Tubman -- Tz'u-hsi -Gertrude Bell -- Jeannette Rankin -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Golda Meir -- Indira Gandhi - Eva Peron -- Wilma Mankiller -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Rigoberta Menchu.
920 ROL
100 women who shaped world history / Gail Meyer Rolka 1994
Arranged chronologically...beginning with Queen Makare Hatshepsut (c.1503 BC) and
concluding with Rigoberta Menchu...includes a trivia quiz and a list of related projects
Rosa Parks
B PARKS
Mighty times : [VIDEORECORDING] : the legacy of Rosa Parks 2002
The story of how one woman, through a single act of defiance on a Montgomery bus,
inspired a community to unite in its opposition to segregation and change America
forever.
B PARKS
Quiet strength : the faith, the hope, and the heart of a woman who changed a
nation / reflections by Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed 1994
B PARKS c.1, 2
Rosa Parks / Douglas Brinkley 2000
B PARKS c.1, 2
Rosa Parks: my story / by Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins 1992
GNOV MIL
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott / by Connie Colwell Miller ;
illustrated by Dan Kalal 2007
A biography of Rosa Parks in graphic novel format.
Sojourner Truth
B TRUTH c1, 2, 3
Sojourner Truth : ain't I a woman? / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack.
1992
A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and
advocate of women's rights.
B TRUTH
Sojourner Truth / Peter Krass ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]. 1988
Traces the life of the former slave who could neither read nor write, yet earned a
reputation as one of the most articulate and outspoken antislavery and women's rights
activists in the United States.
B TRUTH
Sojourner Truth, slave, abolitionist, fighter for women's rights / by Aletha Jane
Lindstrom ; illustrated by Paul Frame. 1980
A biography of a former slave who became one of the best-known abolitionists of her
day and spent her life trying to improve living conditions for blacks.
B TRUTH
Sojourner Truth : a self-made woman / Victoria Ortiz. 1974
B TRUTH
Journey toward freedom : the story of Sojourner Truth / Jacqueline Bernard ;
introduction by Nell Irvin Painter. 1990
A biography of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, freed in 1827, and became
famous for her courage, quick wit, and ready challenge as she campaigned for abolition
and women's rights in New York and the Midwestern States.
321.8 WIL
The Will of the people : readings in American democracy 2001
Address to the First annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association /
Sojourner Truth -- United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony -- Let America be
America again -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr