<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Ball, Erica]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Ball, Erica]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/seattle/rss/search?query=Ball%2C%20Erica&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:33:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Madam C.J. Walker]]></title><description><![CDATA[Madam C. J. Walker is reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress. By the time of her death in 1919, however, Walker had refashioned herself into one of the most famous African American figures in the nation: the owner and president of a hair-care empire and a philanthropist wealthy enough to own a country estate near the Rockefellers in the prestigious New York town of Irvington-on-Hudson. -- adapted from back of book]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3640040</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3640040</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ball, Erica]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3640040030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Making of An American Icon</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442260382/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Colored Conventions Movement]]></title><description><![CDATA["This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3638930</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3638930</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3638930030</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781469654256/MC.GIF&amp;client=sepup&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>