Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
New Books in Gender
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How to Write a Black Women's Book
The book was like 800 pages, and there were too many sections. I wanted to show a concentration of an examplef each area of expertise that black women have achieved. So when you go to each section, like the activist section, is a history of black women activists from slavery to the present. The same thing for dancers, slavery to thepresent. Same thing for sports, how black women have participated in these areas. And then i have featured biographies that follow, ecause i can't do a biography on everybody.
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