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Black Feminism: Notable Figures

This guide gives a brief overview of Black Feminism, Black Feminists, and resources surrounding Black Feminist Thought.

Notable Figures

While the list of notable Black Feminists is expansive, resources about the figures below can be found in the Trinity Library book collection.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker by Barbara Kramer
ISBN: 9780894906206
Publication Date: 1995-08-01
Her Blue Body Everything We Know by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780156028615
Publication Date: 2004-05-17
In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780156028639
Publication Date: 2004-05-17
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780151191543
Publication Date: 1992-05-22
The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker; Rubenstein J Staff (Editor)
ISBN: 9780671745882
Publication Date: 1991-05-01

Mary Church Terrell

Quest for Equality by Beverly W. Jones
ISBN: 9780926019195
Publication Date: 1990-05-01
Lives of Their Own by Martha Watson; Thomas W. Benson (Editor)
ISBN: 9781570032004
Publication Date: 1999-01-01

Angela Davis

Angela Davis by Angela Davis
ISBN: 9780717806676
Publication Date: 1988-12-01

Anna Julia Cooper

The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper by Charles Lemert; Esme Bhan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780847684083
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
A Voice from the South by Anna J. Cooper; Janet Neary (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780486805634
Publication Date: 2016-08-17

Ida B. Wells

Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells; Alfreda M. Duster (Editor)
ISBN: 9780226893440
Publication Date: 1991-07-23
On Lynchings by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
ISBN: 9780486779997
Publication Date: 2014-05-21
The Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Trudier Harris (Other)
ISBN: 9780195062021
Publication Date: 1991-04-18

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780060838676
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780061651113
Publication Date: 2008-12-02
The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston; Henry Louis Gates (Introduction by); Sieglinde Lemke (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780061350184
Publication Date: 2008-01-08

Audre Lorde

Warrior Poet by Alexis De Veaux
ISBN: 9780393329353
Publication Date: 2006-11-17

Maya Angelou

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780812980325
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780345514400
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
A Song Flung up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780553382037
Publication Date: 2003-04-01
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9781400066117
Publication Date: 2013-04-02

bell hooks

Yearning by Bell Hooks
ISBN: 9781138821750
Publication Date: 2014-10-27
Feminist Theory by Bell Hooks
ISBN: 9781138821668
Publication Date: 2014-10-01

Fannie Lou Hamer

Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 by Davis W. Houck (Editor); David E. Dixon (Editor)
ISBN: 9781604731071
Publication Date: 2009-01-28

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm; Donna Brazile (Foreword by); Shola Lynch (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780980059021
Publication Date: 2010-01-01

Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth by Carleton Mabee; Susan M. Newhouse
ISBN: 9780814755259
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Sojourner Truth by Patricia C. McKissack; Fredrick L. McKissack
ISBN: 9780590446914
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Sojourner Truth by Nell Irvin Painter
ISBN: 9780393317084
Publication Date: 1997-10-17

Octavia Butler

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
ISBN: 0807083690
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
Dark Matter by Sheree Renée Thomas; M. Simmons
ISBN: 0446525839
Publication Date: 2000-07-18