Warrior Women - 2025

Women's History Month
 

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1. All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake

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Author:
Miles, Tiya, 1970-
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"In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother Rose gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that 'It be filled with my Love always.' Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley....

2. Jell-O girls: a family history

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Rowbottom, Allie
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"A memoir ... of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade-- told by the inheritor of their stories. In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American history, and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege-- but they were also...