Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth
Jeannine Atkins
In free verse, this biographical novel follows Mary Agnes Chase, Marguerite Thomas Williams, and a third woman who pursue scientific work related to the earth. Their paths lead them toward botany, geology, and entomology despite poverty, racism, sexism, and limited access to formal schooling. Chase’s plant drawings help her obtain work at the Smithsonian; Williams ultimately receives a doctorate in geology, a first for a Black woman.
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