Portia: The Life of Portia Washington Pittman, the Daughter of Booker T. Washington
by Ruth Ann Stewart
Nonfiction · 780L · 154 pages · 1977
Why we'd hand it over
A rare and earnest 1977 biography of an overlooked figure; valuable as a primary example of how African American women shaped early 20th-century education and activism, though the prose doesn't sing and may feel dated to modern readers.