Paula J Giddings Books in Order

Using diaries, letters, speeches, and other historical records, Giddings examines Black women's influence on American struggles over race and gender. Portraits of activists including Ida B. Wells and Fannie Lou Hamer trace resistance to exclusion and oppression.

Giddings traces the history of Delta Sigma Theta and its place in the Black sorority movement. Members' stories illuminate education, sisterhood, public service, and Black women's increasing participation in America's political, social, and economic life.

Edited by Paula Giddings, this anthology gathers writing on race and civil rights from The Nation's archives. Articles spanning the magazine's long history place changing debates and struggles over racial equality alongside one another for comparison.

Giddings follows journalist and activist Ida B. Wells from her early resistance to segregation into her campaign against lynching. This biography places Wells's work within wider struggles for racial justice, women's suffrage, and political recognition.