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Women's History Month: Women's Voices

Books & ebooks about women who challenge, inspire and influence

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Shine Bright: a very personal history of black women in pop
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change
Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future
Shaping the Public Good: Women Making History in the Pacific Northwest
Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip Hop
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
American Women and Flight since 1940
Becoming
A Locker Room of Her Own: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Speak out!

Tarana Burke, Founder of #MeToo Movement | Source:  TEDWomen

Gloria Steinem, Writer, Author, Activist, Feminist Icon |
Source: PBS NewsHour(with transcript)
Elizabeth Acevedo, Poet | Source: PBS NewsHour (with transcript)
Melissa Malzkuhn, Deaf Advocate | Source: PBS Newshour (with transcript)
Laverne Cox, Transgender Activist & Actress | Source: GLAAD
Melissa Malzkuh, Deaf Advocate | Source: PBS NewsHour(with transcript)