![]() ![]() PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Martha Jones reveals that her storytelling efforts in Vanguardwere inspired by the largely unrecorded roles that the women in her own familyNancy Bell Graves, Susan, and Fannieplayed in the struggle for Black women to gain the vote. Jones Basic Books, paperback SKU: 9781541600256 The epic history of African American womens pursuit of political power - and how it. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of Black women - Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more - who were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals. She recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. ![]() ![]() In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. But this overwhelmingly White women's movement did not win the vote for most Black women. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Johns Hopkins University history professor Martha Jones explored the efforts by black women to win their right to vote. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Martha Jones, 'Vanguard' CSPAN Decem8:00am-9:01am EST. The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power - and how it transformed America. ![]()
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