LibGuides: Biographies: Women

Historical (Women)

Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
Call Number: E457.15 .K26 1998
ISBN: 9788087830826
Publication Date: 2013-08-01
Belle by Paula Byrne
Call Number: DA483.B45 B97 2014
ISBN: 9780062310774
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Bessie Coleman, the Brownskin Lady Bird by Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
Call Number: TL540.C646 F74 1994
ISBN: 9780815314615
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
Bombay Anna: the real story and remarkable adventures of the King and I governess by Susan Morgan
Call Number: DS578.32.L44 M67 2008
ISBN: 9780520252264
Publication Date: 2008-07-07
Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
Call Number: DK170 .M34 2011
ISBN: 9780679456728
Publication Date: 2011-11-08
Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier by Phillip Thomas Tucker
Call Number: E185.97.W694 T83 2002
ISBN: 0811703401
Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Discarded Legacy: politics and poetics in the life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911 by Melba J. Boyd
Call Number: PS1799.H7 Z59 1994
ISBN: 0814324894
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
The Dragon Empress by Marina Warner
Call Number: DS763.T8 W37 1972
ISBN: 0689707142
Publication Date: 1986-09-01
Early Black American Leaders in Nursing by Althea T. Davis
Call Number: RT83.5 .D38 1999
ISBN: 0763710091
Publication Date: 1999-03-11
Emma Darwin by James D. Loy; Kent M. Loy
Call Number: CT788.D25 L69 2010
ISBN: 9780813034782
Publication Date: 2010-09-19
Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen by Julia Flynn Siler
Call Number: DU627 .S55 2012
ISBN: 9780802120014
Publication Date: 2012-01-03
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne
Call Number: E185.97.D69 H67 2000
ISBN: 0814736157
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport
Call Number: DK258.6 .R374 2014
ISBN: 9781250020208
Publication Date: 2014-06-03
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Call Number: E185.97.T8 P35 1996
ISBN: 0393027392
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Song of My Life by Carolyn J. Brown
Call Number: Online - PS3545.A517 Z56 2014
ISBN: 9781626740792
Publication Date: 2014-10-24
Straight on till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell
Call Number: TL540.M345 L68 1987
ISBN: 9780393339154
Publication Date: 1987
We Two: Victoria and Albert - Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
Call Number: DA554 .G55 2010
ISBN: 9780345520012
Publication Date: 2009-11-30

Contemporary (Women)

Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile by Marjorie Agosín; Emma Sepulveda; Bridget M. Morgan (Translator); Marjorie Agosín; Emma Sepúlveda
Call Number: PQ8098.1.G6 Z486 2001
ISBN: 0292705069
Publication Date: 2001-06-01
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Call Number: E909.O24 A3 2018
ISBN: 9781524763138
Publication Date: 2018-11-13
Breaking Through the Wall by Dolores E. Cross
ISBN: 0883781654
Publication Date: 1999-12-01
The autobiography of Dolores Cross's journey from the housing projects of Newark, New Jersey, to her appointment as president of Morris Brown College.
Cooking with Grease by Donna Brazile
Call Number: E840.8.B725 A3 2005
ISBN: 0743253981
Publication Date: 2004-05-25
Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley; Joe Hilley (Contribution by); Bernice A. King (Afterword by)
Call Number: E185.97.K47 B34 2012
ISBN: 9780817317652
Publication Date: 2012-04-27
Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey through the Color Complex by Marita Golden
Call Number: Course Reserves: E185.86 .G625 2005
ISBN: 9781400077366
Publication Date: 2005-01-04
Jewels: 50 phenomenal Black women over 50 by Michael Cunningham; Connie Briscoe; Nikki Giovanni (Contribution by)
Call Number: E185.86 .C985 2007
ISBN: 0316113042
Publication Date: 2007-04-11
Made from Scratch: A Memoir by Sandra Lee
Call Number: TX649.L45 A3 2007
ISBN: 9780696239199
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Margaret Thatcher by Charles Moore
Call Number: DA591.T47 M66 2013
ISBN: 9780307958945
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
Michelle by Liza Mundy
Call Number: E901.1.O24 M86 2009c
ISBN: 9781416599449
Publication Date: 2009-05-05
Mother Teresa by Kathryn Spink
Call Number: BX4406.5.Z8 S65 2011
ISBN: 9780062026149
Publication Date: 2011-06-07
No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
Call Number: E840.8.R48 A3 2011
ISBN: 9780307587862
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Sonia Sotomayor by Antonia Felix
Call Number: KF8745.S67 F45 2011
ISBN: 9780425242957
Publication Date: 2011-09-06

Activists (Women)

Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary by Jasmine Guy
Call Number: E185.97.S528 G89 2004
ISBN: 0743470532
Publication Date: 2004-02-03
Angela Davis by Angela Davis
Call Number: E185.97.D23 A3 1988
ISBN: 0717806677
Publication Date: 1988-12-01
Barbara Jordan by Mary Beth Rogers
Call Number: E840.8.J62 R63 2000
ISBN: 0553380664
Publication Date: 2000-01-04
Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement by J. Todd Moye
Call Number: E185.97.B214 M69 2013
ISBN: 9781442215658
Publication Date: 2013-09-12
Fannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon by Earnest N. Bracey
Call Number: E185.97.H35 B73 2011
ISBN: 9780786460304
Publication Date: 2011-02-23
Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader by Yevette Richards
Call Number: HD8073.S64 R53 2000
ISBN: 0822958511
Publication Date: 2004-08-29

e-Books (Women)

The Adventures of the Woman Homesteader by Susanne K. George-Bloomfield
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780803221413
Publication Date: 1992-11-01
Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote by Bernadette Cahill
Call Number: JK1899.P38 C35 2015eb
ISBN: 9780786469796
Publication Date: 2015-04-02
American Indian Women by Gretchen M. Bataille; Kathleen Mullen Sands
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780803260481
Publication Date: 2013-12-01
Black Print with a White Carnation by Amy Helene Forss
Call Number: Online - PN4874.B7815 .F67 2014
ISBN: 9780803249554
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Civil Rights Childhood by Jordana Y. Shakoor
Call Number: eBooks | E185.96 .S42 1999eb
ISBN: 9780585212715
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells; Alfreda M. Duster (Editor)
ISBN: 9780226893440
Publication Date: 1991-07-23
Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad by Runyon, Randolph
Call Number: E450
Publication Date: 2015
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
Call Number: eBooks | E185.97.B214 R36 2003eb
ISBN: 9780807862704
Publication Date: 2003-11-20
Encyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World by Joyce Salisbury
Call Number: eBooks | HQ1127 .S25 2001eb
ISBN: 9781576070925
Publication Date: 2001-05-16
Florence Nightingale, Feminist by Judith Lissauer Cromwell
Call Number: Online Resources | RT37.N5 C76 2013eb
ISBN: 9780786470921
Publication Date: 2013-03-15
The Honest Courtesan by Margaret F. Rosenthal
Call Number: Online - DG678; DG678.24.F73 .R384 2012
ISBN: 9780226027494
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957 by Merline Pitre
Call Number: eBooks | F391.W575 P58 1999eb
ISBN: 9780890968697
Publication Date: 1999-04-01
Lillian Carter by Grant Hayter-Menzies
Call Number: E874.C375 H49 2014eb
ISBN: 9780786497195
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Marie Dressler by Betty Lee
Call Number: Online Resources | PN2287 .D55 L44 2014
ISBN: 9780813120362
Publication Date: 1997-08-28
Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen
Call Number: eBooks | CT275.B7656 I94 1999eb
ISBN: 9780585060712
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl by Kitty Oliver
Call Number: Online - F319.J1 O45 2015
ISBN: 9780813122083
Publication Date: 2001-10-12
Women Adventurers, 1750-1900 by Mary F. McVicker
Call Number: Online Resources
ISBN: 9780786475094
Publication Date: 2013-01-29
Women in Science - Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
Call Number: eBooks | Q141 .O34 1986eb
ISBN: 9780262650380
Publication Date: 1990-08-15
Women of the Resistance by Marc E. Vargo
Call Number: Online - D802.A2 V29 2012
ISBN: 9781476600383
Publication Date: 2012-01-01