Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). Her motto and title of her autobiography—Unbought and Unbossed—illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Source: Debra Michals, PhD for the National Women's History Musem.
28 Epic Days of Black History
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These books are available from the Mercer Country Library:
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
Molly, by Golly! by Dianne Ochiltree
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange
Bippity Bop Barbershop by Natasha Tarpley
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder
The Secret Garden of George Carver Washington by Gene Barretta
Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford
Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
The ABCs of Black History by Rio Cortez
The Power of Her Pen by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Case for Loving by Selina Alko
Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson
Muddy by Michael James Mahin
Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama
Mr. Crum’s Potato Predicament by Ann Renaud
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe
Voice of Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
The United States v. Jackie Robinson by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue
Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper
We March by Shane W. Evans
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
This is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jaqueline Woodson