Royster, Jacqueline Jones, Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African-American Women, Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Royster adopts an interdisciplinary view of rhetoric and social change in this study of the important role played by highly literate African-American women in the late twentieth century. She demonstrates that these women have been able to affect social and political change through speech, books, and periodicals.

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Vol. 1, Rizzoli International, 1996.

This volume captures the art on display during the title exhibition. Various media were included in the exhibit, and twenty-five notable artists contributed work. The photos of the art are complemented by relevant essays written by such prominent African-American women as Cleage and Maya Angelou.

Stine, Gerald J., AIDS Update 2002, Prentice Hall, 2001.

Stine presents a comprehensive...