Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago

Lifting As They Climbed is an essential guidebook that celebrates the contributions of influential Black women from Chicago's South and West Sides.

This updated and extended edition showcases 78 women who have shaped the city's social, cultural, and artistic landscape through their activism, art, music, and more.

With crisp maps and accessible narratives, this book takes readers on five self-guided tours of Chicago's South and West Sides, highlighting the stories of marginalized Black women whose lives reveal powerful connections to present-day struggles for radical community-building and solidarity.

Don't miss out on this powerful tribute to the amazing Black women who have lived, worked, struggled, taught, and worshiped in Chicago's Southside streets.

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