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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area

Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area

Alexandra, Rae
Simms, Adrienne

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Biography

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1931404208
ISBN13: 9781931404204
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Why are there so few public monuments honoring women? Unsung Heroines shows it's time to claim that space!

Women are grossly underrepresented in all of the Bay Area's public spaces, but not because they didn't exist! Did you know about Charlotte Brown, a Black woman in San Francisco who in 1863 took the city's transportation system to court for forcibly removing her from a streetcar, and won her landmark case? How about the first Chinese-American woman to register to vote, Clara Chan Lee, who went on to start the Chinese Women's Self-Reliance Association? Or Barbara May Cameron, a Native American writer, photographer, and activist who co-founded the first gay American Indian liberation organization? How many other notable women who deserve public recognition have been written out of the history of our region?

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