Women of Color and Accomplishment series was started as a result of my research into the BLM movement in 2020. Learning about the many Black women who have accomplished incredible things despite major obstacles, I wanted to honor those women by painting their portraits. The first book in the series was published in 2021 and contains portraits and brief bios of 31 women honored. The second edition was published in 2022 and I am currently working on the third book: Women of Color and Accomplishment: Doing the Right Thing that will be published in October, 2023.
Some of the women that will be included in book 3, Women of Color and Accomplishment: Doing the Right Thing are:
The books are available in the Marin County Free Library system, Martin Luther King, Jr Academy, Arcadia Public Library system in California and Macon, Georgia schools. If you want a copy in your library system, please send me a contact person at your library and I will try to make it happen. Email me at carol@caroljacobsen.com.
You can purchase my books here.