In honor of Women's History Month, three novelists with new historical fiction about pioneering Black women reveal their characters' stories and how they came to write about them. Victoria Christopher Murray's latest novel (written with Marie Benedict), "The First Ladies," brings to life the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune; Joshunda Sanders' debut novel "Women of the Post" is based on the real-life 6888th Central Postal Battalion, the only unit of Black women to serve overseas during WWII. And Ruth P. Watson's "A Right Worthy Woman" is about Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to run a bank in the United States. Moderated by Monica Valentine, program specialist at the Library of Congress.

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