Bibliograph

Vanguard, how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all, Martha S. Jones

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Vanguard, how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all, Martha S. Jones

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-324) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Vanguard

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Martha S. Jones

Sub title

how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all

Summary

According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. Historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. 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 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

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