New Releases: Rebels Edition

It is the VERY FIRST full-length biography of Black suffragist Mary Church Terrell. Terrell was first president of the National Association of Colored Women and a founding member of the NAACP and worked with people like Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells. She also died in 1954, which blows my mind, because I can’t fathom someone working with Douglass and also knowing about I Love Lucy. But she did! Presumably.

I love a young readers adaptation. Sometimes you don’t have time for adult nonfiction but you still wanna learn about a thing. Roundtree was a civil rights activist and lawyer, winning a 1955 victory before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first bus desegregation case. She was also an officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in WWII, and later became a minister. Basically she did absolutely everything. Side note: I love this cover.

Wright puts the idea out there that American Christianity’s slow embrace of abolition hinged on its millennarian (assumption the world’s about to end) beliefs. If you’re a nerd about early American history or want to read about how a dominant religion helped and hindered the end of enslavement in America, check this out. I’m really jazzed about it.

This is the week for reformer bios to be released! If the name Pankhurst sounds familiar, it’s basically the Pankhursts basically ruled the English suffragist movement, led by Sylvia and her sister Christabel’s mother, Emmeline. “The vote was just the beginning of her lifelong defence of human rights, from her early warnings of the rise of fascism in Europe, to her campaigning against racism and championing of the liberation struggles in Africa and India.” Basically, she did a ton and this new biography is here to tell you all about it.