Women's History Month

Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Learn more: 

• Fannie Lou Hamer

  SNCC Digital Gateway, Duke University

• “The Sweat and Blood of Fannie Lou Hamer”

  Rosalind Early, HUMANITIES, Winter 2021, Volume 42, Number 1, National Endowment for the Humanities

• Video: America ReFramed: "Fannie Lou Hamer's America"  (58:41)

  PBS, 2022

• Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Keisha N. Early, 2021. Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson!

Enolia Pettigen McMillan

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• Enolia Pettigen McMillan

  Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition

• Enolia Pettigen McMillan

  Maryland Women's Heritage Center

• Video: Black History Spotlight: Enolia Pettigen McMillan by Dr. Tiffany Mfume (10:42)

Viola Liuzzo

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• Viola Liuzzo: Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail

  National Park Service

• Viola Gregg Liuzzo

  Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University

• Video: The Story of Civil Rights activist Viola Liuzzo (7:24)

MSNBC, 2023

• The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo

Gary May, 2005. Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson, or as an eBook!

Myrlie Evers-Williams

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• Myrlie Evers-Williams ’68 Collection at Pomona College

  Pomona College, part of the Claremont Colleges

• Myrlie Evers-Williams

  NAACP

• Video: Myrlie Evers opens up about marriage to civil rights icon Medgar Evers (12:29)

CBS Mornings with Gayle King, 2023

Anne McCarty Braden

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• Who was Anne Braden?

  Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, University of Louisville

• Ann & Carl Braden

  SNCC Digital Gateway, Duke University

• Podcast: Anne McCarty Braden: American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator (1:24:56)

Louisville Free Public Library, 2024

Mary McLeod Bethune

Learn more:

• Biography: Mary McLeod Bethune

National Women's History Museum

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Archives of Women's Political Communication, Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University

• Video: Mary McCleod Bethune 1949 radio show interview (24:55)

Ida B. Wells

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• Biography: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

National Women's History Museum

• A Voice for Justice: The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells

University of Chicago Library

• Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells, 1972. Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson!

• Video: Ida B. Wells: Crash Course Black American History #20 (11:33)

Daisy Bates

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• Bates, Daisy

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University

• Interview with Daisy Bates, October 11, 1976 [transcript]

Southern Oral History Program Collection, Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina

• The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir

Daisy Bates, 1962. Available as an eBook!

• Video: The Influence of Daisy Bates (6:32)

Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, 2022

Toni Morrison

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• Discovering Toni Morrison

Digital Princeton University Library Portal

• In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching

Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Summer 2019

• The Origin of Others

Toni Morrison, 2017. Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson!

• Video: Remembering Toni Morrison, An Iconic American Author | NYT News (4:22)

bell hooks

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• bell hooks

The Poetry Foundation

• bell hooks on education

The encyclopedia of pedagogy and informal education

• Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

bell hooks, 2000. Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson!

• Video: bell hooks and Laverne Cox in a Public Dialogue at The New School (1:36:08)

Audre Lorde

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• The Legacy of Audre Lord

Roxane Gay, The Paris Review, September 17, 2020

• Audre Lord

Academy of American Poets

• The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992

Audre Lorde, 1994. Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson and Red Mountain!

• Video: Why you need to know the work of Audre Lorde (11:40)

Octavia Butler

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• Remembering Afrofuturist Octavia Butler

National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian

• The official site of Octavia E. Butler

octaviabutler.com

• Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower (Graphic novel adaptation)

Available for check-out at Southern & Dobson!

• Video: Revisiting Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in 2024 (59:19)

Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Zora Neale Hurston

Learn more:

• Why Zora Neale Hurston Was Obsessed with the Jews

The New Yorker, January 13, 2025

• Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive

University of Central Florida Center for Humanities and Digital Research

• Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston

Susan E. Meisenhelder, 2001. Available as an eBook!

• Documentary: Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming Space (1:53:07)

PBS, 2024