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• Afro-American women
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• The Anti-Lynching Crusaders: "A Million Women United to Suppress Lynching" (ca. 1922), by Anti-Lynching Crusaders, contrib. by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)
• Work for the Colored Women of the South (Tuskegee: Normal School Press, 1894), ed. by Margaret James Murray Washington
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  • multiple formats at archive.org; some pages may be duplicated or missing
• "Mammy"; an appeal to the heart of the South, by Charlotte Hawkins Brown ... ([Boston, Thmmiesgrim Press, c1919]), by Charlotte Hawkins Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of achievement; ([Chicago, Woman's American Baptist home mission society, c1919]), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bronze : a book of verses / by Georgia Douglas Johnson ; with an introduction by W.E.B. Du Bois. (Boston : B.J. Brimmer Co., 1922), by Georgia Douglas Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new day for the colored woman worker; a study of colored women in industry in New York City. ([s.l., s.n.], 1919), by Nelle Swartz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A nickel and a prayer / by Jane Edna Hunter. ([Cleveland] : Elli Kani Pub. Co., 1940), by Jane Edna Harris Hunter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (Providence, R. I. : B.T. Albro, printer, 1838), by Elleanor Eldridge and B. T. Albro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black women in the labor force / (Washington, D.C. : The Bureau, 1991), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro girl [electronic resource] / (New York : Woman's Home Missionary Society, [ca. 1915]), by Daisy Mclain Bulkley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro women war workers. ([Washington] Women's Bureau, United States Dept. of Labor, [1945]), by Kathryn Blood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of a female slave / (Detroit : Negro History Press, [1971?]), by Martha Griffith Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The seven seals /, by Lucinda Smith-Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. ([Chicago : s.n., 1922]), by Elizabeth Lindsay Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tribute to the life and work of my sister, Susie Helen Porter /, by Henry Ware Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poro hair & beauty culture., by Poro College (page images at HathiTrust)
• The uncrowned queen : a treatise on the Negro woman of America /, by C. C. Somerville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadow and sunshine /, by Eliza Suggs and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary index and hand book /, by Isabelle Tanner-Temple and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deaconess manual of the African Methodist Episcopal Church /, by African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charles Simpson Butcher, and Abraham Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities /, by Monroe A. Majors and C. T. Vivian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro women workers in 1960 (Washington] U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women's Bureau; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964]), by Helen Osterrieth Nicol and Miriam. Negro women and their jobs Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of colored women; (New York, [1919]), by Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board. War Work Council. Colored Work Committee and Jane Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black women in the labor force / ([Washington, D.C.?] : The Bureau, [1997]), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Dice : the story of a faithful slave / (Nashville, Tenn. : Pub. House of the M.E. Church, South, 1897), by Nina Hill Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A beacon for womanhood. (Greensboro, N.C. : Bennett College, [1935?]), by N.C.) Bennett College (Greensboro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bennett College for women. (Greensboro, N.C. : [Bennett College, 1928?]), by N.C.) Bennett College (Greensboro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 'Black mammy,' a song of the sunny South, in three cantos; and My village home, (Cheyenne, Wyo. [Sun Stream Print.], 1885), by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amanda Smith : an autobiography / (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1894), by Amanda Smith and Charles G. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro woman's college education (New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, 1956), by Jeanne L Noble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glorying in tribulation / (Philadelphia : Protestant Episcopal Book Society, 1864), by Hannah Carson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Beckie and Aunt Betsy, aged coloured women. (Philadelphia : Printed by David Heston, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iola Leroy, or, Shadows uplifted / (Philadelphia : Garrigues, 1892), by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Garrigues Brothers. pbl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls. (Peake's Turnout, Va. : [s.n.], 1916-1920), by Va.) Industrial Home School for Colored Girls (Peaks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improving employment possibilities for female black teenagers in New York City : final report, May 1976 / ([Washington] : Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 1976), by Metropolitan Applied Research Center and United States. Employment and Training Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• For your heart : a guide to healthier living for African-American women : a website educational tool for nurses / (Silver Spring, MD : National Black Nurses Association, [2002]), by United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office on Women's Health and National Black Nurses' Association (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of color health information collection. ([Bethesda, Md.] : Office of Research on Women's Health, [U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health], [2010]), by National Institute of Health (U.S.). Office of Research on Women's Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improving employment opportunities for female Black teenagers in New York City / ([Washington] : U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 1977), by Metropolitan Applied Research Center and Northside Center for Child Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• A maker of saints / (New York : E.P. Dutton, c1920), by Hamilton Drummond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro women in industry in 15 states. (Washington, U.S. Gov. Print. Off., 1929), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro women in industry. (Washington, Govt. print. off., 1922), by United States Women's Bureau, Emma L. Shields, and United States. Dept. of Labor. Division of Negro Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women in Florida industries. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1930), by United States Women's Bureau, Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon, and Ethel L. Best (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls. ([Peake, VA : Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, 1916-]), by Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nelly was a lady; written and composed by Stephen Collins Foster. (Boston, Ticknor and company, 1889), by Stephen Collins Foster, A. V. S. Anthony, and Charles Copeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Current data on nonwhite women workers. ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Women's Bureau, 1965), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The royal Queen Elizabeth Miller : the inspiring true story of a woman who built a kingdom for children whom the world had cast away / (New York : Greenwich Book Publishers, 1979, c1961), by Audrey Blackford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sowing for others to reap; a collection of papers ... of the Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. ([Boston, C. Alexander, 1900]), by Carrie Williams Clifford and Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro women of Gainesville, Georgia, ([Athens, Ga., 1921]), by Ruth Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conference on the Educational and Occupational Needs of Black Women, Washington, D.C., 1975 (Washington, D.C., National Institute of Education, 1977), by D.C.) Conference on the Educational and Occupational Needs of Black Women (1975 : Washington and National Institute of Education (U.S.). Women's Research Program (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro women in the population and in the labor force. ([Washington, 1967]), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The work of the Afro-American women. (Philadelphia, G. S. Ferguson Co., 1908), by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a colored lady, : giving an account of the call to preach the gospel. Revised and corrected from the original mss., / (Cincinnati : Printed and published for the author, 1839), by Jarena Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noted Negro women, their triumphs and activities, (Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971 [c1893]), by Monroe A. Majors (page images at HathiTrust)
• The work of the Afro-American woman /, by Mrs. N. F. Mossell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homespun heroines and other women of distinction, ([Xenia, O., Aldine Pub. Co., c1926), by Hallie Q. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Silvia Dubois, (now 116 yers old.) : A biografy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gand her fredom. / (Ringos, N.J. : C.W. Larison, publisher, 1883), by Cornelius Wilson Larison, Silvia Dubois, and engraver Crosscup & West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mary S. Peake, the colored teacher at Fortress Monroe. /, by Lewis C. Lockwood, Samuel Cloues, Frederick W. Halpin, and Mass.) publisher American Tract Society (Boston, illust. by John N. Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poems on various subjects, religious and moral. / (Albany : Re-printed from the London edition, by Barber & Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, Market-Street, 1793), by Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Spencer, Solomon Southwick, John Barber, Selina Hastings Huntingdon, John Wheatley, and printer Barber & Southwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• HIV/AIDS health care utilization & medical adherence issues among HIV seropositive Afican [sic] women in Miami. ([Rockville, Md.?] : U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, [1995?]), by United States. Health Resources and Services Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economic status of Black women : an exploratory investigation. (Washington, D.C. : United States Commission on Civil Rights, [1990]), by Nadja Zalokar and United States Commission on Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro women in the population and in the labor force. ([Washington, 1968]), by United States Women's Bureau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge. (Providence : Printed by B.T. Albro, 1843), by Frances H. Green, Elleanor Eldridge, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Women of achievement : written for the Fireside Schools, under the auspices of the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society / ([Chicago, Ill.] : The Society, c1919), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley and Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minority women and breast cancer : hearing before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, October 4, 1994. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1995), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lubly Fan will you cum out to night? / (Boston (67 & 69 Court St., Boston) : Keith's Music Publishing House, ©1844), by Cool White, J. P. Carter, and Virginia Serenaders. prf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro woman worker, (Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1938), by Jean Collier Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Comedy, American style, (New York, AMS Press, [1969]), by Jessie Redmon Fauset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A voice from the South. /, by Anna J. Cooper, contrib. by Aldine Printing House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828. With a portrait. ; [Eight lines of quotations]., by Sojourner Truth, Theodore Dwight Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Olive Gilbert, and printer J.B. Yerrinton and Son (page images at HathiTrust)

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