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The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 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.
In Vanguard, acclaimed 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. 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.
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“A sweeping narrative for our times, grounded in the multigenerational struggle of black women for a freedom and equality that would not only fulfill their rights but galvanize a broader, redemptive movement for human rights everywhere.”
— Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times bestselling author
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“Thanks to Martha Jones’s Vanguard, Black women’s rightful place in this history has been restored."
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“An elegant and expansive history of Black women who sought to build political power where they could."
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“In her important new book, Jones shows…why their achievements speak mightily to our present moment as voters, regardless of gender or race."
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“If you read no other book on suffrage this centennial of the nineteenth amendment, read this one. Let the incomparable historian Martha S. Jones take you to school.”
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“Highly charged, absorbing reading and most timely.”
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“A necessary, insightful book…Jones writes narrative nonfiction at its best.”
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“Martha Jones is the political historian of African American women. And this book is the commanding history of the remarkable struggle of African American women for political power.”
— Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author
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Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
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An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
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About Martha S. Jones
Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is a past co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest and largest association of women historians in the United States, and she sits on the executive board of the Society of American Historians. She is the author of Vanguard, Birthright Citizens, and All Bound up Together and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today, and more.
About Mela Lee
Christine Lakin is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and acclaimed television actress, best known for her roles as Alicia “Al” Lambert on the hit family comedy Step by Step and as Joan of Arc on Showtime’s Reefer Madness.