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<\/a>One book in particular that serves as the perfect segue from one theme to the other is Sister Days<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Janus Adams.\u00a0 Subtitled “365 Inspired Moments in African American Women’s History,” the book is written in diary style, with short anecdotes for\u00a0every day of the year.\u00a0 For example, Philippa Schuyler, who was declared a prodigy at age 3, is featured on July 29th, while\u00a0Era Bell Thompson,\u00a0who was inducted into the Iowa Hall of Fame,\u00a0is the woman of the day\u00a0on April 30th.\u00a0\u00a0 Personally, I had not heard about either of these remarkable individuals!\u00a0<\/p>\nThis is just a small sampling of a wide variety of materials celebrating women of achievement throughout the years.\u00a0 Come check some out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February was Black History Month, but\u00a0 March marks the transition into Women’s History Month.\u00a0 If you didn’t catch our displays last month, stop by and see what’s new.\u00a0 One book in particular that serves as the perfect segue from one theme to the other is Sister Days by Janus Adams.\u00a0[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[1536,420],"class_list":["post-10676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-displays","tag-african-americans","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2Mc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/henrietta.jpg?resize=131%2C171&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Another book that’s received a\u00a0 lot of press lately is the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Rebecca Skloot.\u00a0 It’s a true story of a poor woman who died of cervical cancer.\u00a0 Before her death in 1951, a sample of her cancerous tissue was taken, but without her knowledge or consent.\u00a0 Her cells, known as HeLa cells,\u00a0not only survived in the lab, but thrived,\u00a0providing scientists with a building block for many medical breakthroughs,\u00a0starting\u00a0with the cure for polio.<\/p>\n