The National Women’s History Project has declared the theme for this year’s observance of Women’s History Month (March) to be “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business” and has selected honorees from those fields.
Among them are:
Women’s History Month provides an opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of these and other women, as well as on challenges women still face in the public sector, in the corporate world, in nonprofit work, and in higher education.
The publishers affiliated with DiverseBooks.net offer a wide variety of titles suitable for personal reading, research or classroom use in women’s studies and other disciplines. Here are summaries of a select few available on our site at discounts off the list price:
Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon, $45, (List price: $50) University of Mississippi Press, ISBN: 9781604731071, pp. 352.
This anthology presents the full text of 39 speeches by women who participated in the civil rights movement of 1950s and 60s, documenting their immense contributions to the struggle. Represented are such women as Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, Mamie Till-Mobley, Lorraine Hansberry, Dorothy Height and Rosa Parks, as well as lesser-known figures. The authors present introductions for each speech, detailing the occasions and giving biographical facts about each speaker. This book represents the first time many of the speeches were published or transcribed from audio sources, making it a valuable contribution to history.
