Vanguard
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers. Vanguard is a non-fiction book detailing the fight that black women have fought for decades for basic rights. I loved how detailed this book was and although Martha S Jones talks......more

This is a perfectly fine overview of black women's roles in the fight for equality. However, it is more or less just a documentation of various black women's political activities since the 1860s. I would have far preferred a book with a strong thesis, which this lacks. It also doesn't delve deeply e......more

"Vanguard" by Martha Jones is a nonfiction novel about how Black women through America's history fought for political power. While Jones writes about some of the famous Black female activists like Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Harriet Tubman, she also writes about the many Black women who f......more

Out Sept 8th, this masterpiece highlights the work of Black women, who are more often than not at the forefront of major movements, their essential grassroots work exploited for political gain or taken for granted by major political parties. It reveals real truths about the women’s suffrage movement,......more