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Uncrowned Queens:  African American Women
Community Builders of Oklahoma
Volume IV
Written and Edited by
Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr. P.H., Ph.D.
Barbara Seals Nevergold, Ph.D.

“Uncrowned Queens:  African American Community Builders of Oklahoma, 1907 – 2007” is the most comprehensive volume in the series, to date.  In addition to the 106 women whose biographies and photos appear in this text, University of Oklahoma Ph.D. Candidate in History, John Mark Rhea authored the Introduction, JoAnn Haysbert, PhD, President of Langston University pinned the Forward and Uncrowned Queens co-founders, Peggy Brooks-Bertram and Barbara Seals Nevergold contributed articles, in addition to their duties as editors.  This volume was published in May 2007 and has already enjoyed an enthusiastic response from the Oklahoma community.

Uncrowned Queens:  African American Women
Community Builders of Western New York
Volume III
Written and Edited by
Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr. P.H., Ph.D.
Barbara Seals Nevergold, Ph.D.

In 2005, the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc. initiated a year long series of programs to commemorate the centennial of the founding of the Niagara Movement, which originated in Buffalo in 1905.  We introduced Volume III, at the end of this year as a commemorative to the Centennial of the Niagara Movement. Volume III is larger and contains an original paper on Drusilla Dunjee Houston, author of the poem America’s Uncrowned Queens, written in 1917 and another original paper on the Buffalo connection to the Niagara Movement.  The biographies of another 100 women who helped to build the Buffalo, Western New York and border cities of Canada communities are a major feature of this volume. This volume also recognizes our first bi-national foray into celebrating African-Canadian women in border communities in Canada and their contributions to preserving the history and culture of African Canadians. 

Uncrowned Queens:  African American Women
Community Builders of Western New York
Volume II
Written and Edited by
Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr. P.H., Ph.D.
Barbara Seals Nevergold, Ph.D.

This soft-covered book features the biographies and photographs of one hundred extraordinary women from myriad educational, economic, religious, and social backgrounds. Included in Volume II is a new introduction, a progress update about the Uncrowned Queens Project, as well as a stunning afterword that analyzes the events surrounding the assassination of President William McKinley and the contributions of James B. Parker, the heroic African American who stopped a third bullet from killing the former president instantly.  It also connects the contributions of Uncrowned Queen Lena Mason to this legacy by describing her recount of Parker's contributions to history in her poem, "A Negro In It."

Uncrowned Queens:  African American Women
Community Builders of Western New York
Volume I
Written and Edited by
Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr. P.H., Ph.D.
Barbara Seals Nevergold, Ph.D.

In 1999, historians Dr. Peggy Brooks- Bertram and Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold created the Uncrowned Queens project to celebrate the accomplishments of African American women community builders in Western New York. Their most recent collaborative effort is Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York. This soft-covered book, recognizing and honoring African American women, is the first in a series to document the contributions of these women, some well-known, but many without previous recognition. The book features the biographies and photographs of one hundred extraordinary women from myriad educational, economic, religious, and social backgrounds.

Order Pin

The Uncrowned Queens co-founders have worked with master jeweler, Sue Hofmeister on the creation of a signature pin. The Uncrowned Queens Pin is a sterling silver pin that is modeled on a photo of the Phyllis Wheatley Club taken circa 1920. The pin is available through special order with the proceeds benefiting the Institute's programs.