History of Women's History Month

Women's History Month serves to honor and remember the history and contributions of women in society to bring about social change, and speak out against injustice. Women's History Month originally began as a petition to celebrate Women's History Week on March 7, 1982. After another petition secured the celebratory week for the next five years, Women's History Week became Women's History Month in 1987 after Congress passed resolution Pub. L. 100-9 designating the month of March for the celebration month. Today we look back to honor the women who have helped shape and secure women's rights, and we also look ahead and celebrate the women working today to continue this important work for future generations. For more information on the national recognition of Women's History Month, visit: https://womenshistorymonth.gov/about/

And don't forget to celebrate International Women's Day every March 8th!

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Kids

The Lion Queen: Rasila Vadher, The First Woman Guardian of the Last Asiatic Lions by Rina Singh (Book)
The First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller by Patricia Buckley Morris (Book)
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship by Ibtihaj Muhammad (Book)
Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega (Book)
Born Reading: 20 Stories of Women Reading Their Way Into History by Kathleen Krull (Book)
Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley (Book)
Little Leaders: Bold women in Black history by Vashti Harrison (Book, CD Audiobook)
The girl who thought in pictures : the story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Women's art work : more than 30 female artists who changed the world by Sophia Bennett (Book, Hoopla eBook)

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Teens

Our stories, our voices : 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America (Book)
History vs women : the defiant lives that they don't want you to know by Anita Sarkeesian (Book)
Witches! : the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer (Book)
Watch us rise by Renée Watson (Book)
No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture by Amber Keyser (Book, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook)
Silk by Maurene Goo (Book)
Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Book)
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney (Book)
Girlhood: Teens Around the World in Their Own Voices by Masuma Ahuja (Book)

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Adults

A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry (Book)
Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women by Dana Rubin (Book)
The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History by Deborah G. Felder (Book)
Women's Liberation: Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution & Still Can by Alix Kates Shulma (Book)
Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women by Shirley Hune (Book)
We Dissent: Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan on Dobbs v. Jackson, The Supreme Court's Decision Banning Abortion (Book)
Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story by Mazie Hirono (Book)
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jennifer Anne Nuttall (Book)
Writing for Their Lives: America's Pioneering Female Science Journalists by Marcel Chotkowski La Follette (Book)
When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changes Sports and the World by Alexandra Allred (Book)