directly on her experience as the lead plaintiff in a 1955 Virginia school desegregation case (Thompson v County School Board of Arlington County): an essay, The Plaintiff Speaks (2004), and an artist book, It Wasn’t Little Rock (2004 and 2005). Sligh has also created artist books that engage with her own experiences as a Black child reading books, including Reading Dick & Jane with Me (1989), a narrative about learning to read as a Black child, and My Mother, Walt Whitman and Me (2019), focusing on a copy of Leaves of Grass that her mother found in the trash and brought home. Coast-to-Coast National Women Artists of Color Projects In 1988, Sligh co-founded the Coast-to-Coast National Women Artists of Color Project with Faith Ringgold and Margaret Gallegos. From 1988 to 1996, this organization exhibited the works of African American women across the United States. According to this source, Sligh also worked with other organizations that display art made by African American females. The organizations included the National Women's Caucus for Art (1985-1994), The Artist Federal Credit Union, New York (1986-1987), Printed Matter (1992-1996), and the artists advisory board of the Womens Studio Workshop (2004-2007). In 1990, Sligh was one of three organizers of the exhibit "Coast to Coast: A Women of Color National Artists' Book Project" held January 14 – February 2, 1990, at the Flossie Martin Gallery, and later at the Eubie Blake Center and the Artemesia Gallery. Faith Ringgold wrote the catalog introduction titled "History of Coast to Coast." More than 100 Women of Color artists were included. The catalog included brief artist statements and photos of the artists' books, including works by: Emma Amos (painter), Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Dolores Cruz, Dorothy Holden, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Young-Im Kim, Viola Leak, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper, Joyce J. Scott, Freida High Tesfagiorgis, Denise Ward-Brown, Bisa Washington, and Deborah Willis. Awards 1988: Women's Studio Workshop, Artist in Residence, Book Arts 1998: National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts grant 2004: Women's Studio Workshop, Artist in Residence, Book Arts 2006: Leeway Foundation's Art and Change Grant Advisory boards Aperture Penland School of Crafts Printed Matter, Inc National Women's Caucus for Art Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Visual Studies Workshop Women's Studio Workshop Works and publications What's Happening With Momma?, Women's Studio Workshop Press, 1988 Reading Dick and Jane with Me, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1989 Voyage(r): A Tourist