Women of Achievement: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Women of Achievement, credited to Benjamin Griffith Brawley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Women of Achievement by Benjamin Griffith Brawley. Read in English by BettyB; April6090 This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important work done by African American women. It speaks both to the "invisible work" of as mothers and wives, and the work done outside the homes in all sorts of industries, as well as in medicine, education, and arts. In addition, it contains short biographies of five brave, inspiring women. - Summary by kathrinee

Recording facts

• Recording title: Women of Achievement
• Author credits: Benjamin Griffith Brawley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:38:05

Catalogue topics

• women
• education
• race
• inspiring
• african american
• female
• emancipation
• heroine

Track guide

1. 00 - The Fireside Schools; Introduction: The Negro Woman in American Life — 27:08
2. 01 - Harriet Tubman — 14:21
3. 02 - Nora Gordon — 18:57
4. 03 - Meta Warrick Fuller — 14:21
5. 04 - Mary McLeod Bethune — 12:59
6. 05 - Mary Church Terrell — 10:19

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