Black Women Legacies: Public History Sites Seen and Unseen explores the centrality of African American public history to Black life and culture by examining the evolution of memorials to African American women in the United States from the 1890s to 2023. The first four chapters of part 1, “Creating Their Own World: Named Memorials of African American Women during Jim Crow,” showcase how women’s clubs of the National Association of Colored Women championed named memorials as the primary medium of memorialization from the 1890s to the 1960s. The culture of recognition,simultaneous acknowledgment of namesakes and memorializers, was just as important as the self-help ideology that inspired clubwomen’s activism in the Jim Crow era. The latter five chapters of part 2, “The National, State, and Local Stages: Ushering in the Golden Age of African American Women’s Memorialization,” illustrate the most expansive development of traditional public history mediums of African American women from the 1960s to 2023, including statues, house museums, and historic sites sparked by the successful campaign to erect the Mary McLeod Bethune statue in Washington, DC. As the first full-length study to center African American women’s public history, this research reveals a new dimension to the interiority of the legacies of Black women by illustrating the importance of their lives and commemorations to Black communities across the nation.