Vanguard by Martha S. Jones
How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
A sweeping reassessment of American democracy that traces how Black women—from antebellum activists through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the suffrage movement—organized, litigated, and protested to demand full citizenship, transform public institutions, and expand the meaning of the vote, despite exclusion and racism from mainstream suffragists and the state; it centers their leadership, strategies, and networks to show they were not on the margins but at the vanguard of struggles for equality that shaped modern rights movements.
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- 2020
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