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

Author: Martha S. Jones

Narrator: Mela Lee

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 09/08/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

About Martha S. Jones

Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She was formerly a Presidential Bicentennial Professor at the University of Michigan, and was a founding director of the Michigan Law School Program in Race, Law and History. She is the author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 and coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Natalie all_books_great_and_small

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

Goodreads review by Shazia

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

Goodreads review by Sara

"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

Goodreads review by Amanda | District Reads

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

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