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

Title

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

Author

Jones, Martha S.

Publication

New Yor : Basic Books, 2020.
©2020

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Description

339 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"Historian Martha Jones offers a sweeping history of African American women's political lives in America, recounting how they fought for, won, and used the right to the ballot and how they fought against both racism and sexism. She excavates the lives and work of Black women who, although in many cases suffragists, were never single-issue activists. She recounts the lives of Maria Stewart, the first American woman to speak about politics before a mixed audience of men and women; African Methodist Episcopal preacher Jarena Lee; Reconstruction-era advocate for female suffrage Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; Boston abolitionist, religious leader, and women's club organizer Eliza Ann Gardner; and others who were pioneers for both gender and racial equality. Revealing the ways Black women remained independent in their ideas and their organization, Jones shows how Black women were again and again the American vanguard of women's rights, setting the pace in the quest for justice and collective liberation"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Creative nonfiction.
Instructional and educational works.
Biographies.
History.
Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-324) and index.

Awards (note)

Short listed for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, 2021.

Contents

Introduction: Our mothers' gardens -- Daughters of Africa, awake! -- The cause of the slave, as well as of women -- To be Black and female -- One great bundle of humanity -- Make us a power -- Lifting as we climb -- Amendment -- Her weapon of moral defense -- A way to express themselves ... and make change -- Conclusion: Candidates of the people.

Call Number

JK1924

ISBN

9781541618619
1541618610

LCCN

2020006087
40030345818

OCLC

1135569243

Author

Jones, Martha S., author. Author

Title

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

Publisher

New Yor : Basic Books, 2020.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Women

Marylanders

History teachers

University and college faculty members

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-324) and index.

Awards

Short listed for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, 2021.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Other Form:

Online version: Jones, Martha S. Vanguard. First edition. New York : Basic Books, 2020 9781541618602 (OCoLC)1193993860

Other Standard Identifier

40030345818

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR JK1924 .J66 2020

Sc E 21-947

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