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

Viva Frida by Yuyi Morales (Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla Movie)
Drum dream girl : how one girl's courage changed music by Margarita Engle (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook)
Heroism begins with her : inspiring stories of bold, brave, and gutsy women in the U.S. Military by Winifred Conkling (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Around America to win the vote : two suffragists, a kitten, and 10,000 miles by Mara Rockliff (Book, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla Movie Read Along)
Little Leaders: Bold women in Black history by Vashti Harrison (Book, CD Audiobook)
Rad American women A-Z by Kate Schatz (Book, Hoopla eBook)
The girl who thought in pictures : the story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Fearless Mary : Mary Fields, American stagecoach driver by Tami Charles (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Malala : activist for girls' education by Raphaële Frier (Book, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook)
Women's art work : more than 30 female artists who changed the world by Sophia Bennett (Book, Hoopla eBook)

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Teens

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's greatest abolitionist by Margarita Engle (Book, Hoopla Book)
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)
Wonder Woman: Warbringer (Book)
A Tyranny of Petticoats (Book)
Foul is Fair (Hoopla eAudioBook)
Fight Like a Girl (Hoopla eBook)
No More Excuses: Dismantling Rape Culture (Book, Hoopla eBook, OverDrive eBook)
When You Were Everything (Book)

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Adults

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (Book, Hoopla eAudiobook)
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Book, Large Print Book, CD Audiobook)
Becoming by Michelle Obama (Book, Large Print Book, CD Audiobook, Overdrive eBook, Overdrive eAudiobook, Chinese Language, Japanese Language, Spanish Language)
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Book, Large Print Book, CD Audiobook, Overdrive eBook, Overdrive eAudiobook)
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor (Book, Large Print Book, Overdrive eBook, Overdrive eAudiobook)
Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world by Rachel Swaby (Book)
The Myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 by Lisa Tetrault (Book, Hoopla eBook)
Why They Marched by Susan Ware (Book, Hoopla eAudiobook)
Women Trailblazers of California: Pioneers to the Present by Gloria G. Harris (Book)