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

by Martha S. Jones (Author)"An elegant and expansive history" (New York Times) of African American women's pursuit of political power--and how it transformed America  "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. The more power they accumulated, the more equality they wrought. All Americans would be better off learning this history and grasping just how much we owe equality's vanguard." - Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist “Jones’ book is a welcome addition to the spate of books on woman suffrage that have been published this year in honor of the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment. Through her rigorous scholarship and out‑of‑the‑box perspective, she sheds new and important light on the crucial role of Black women in winning and ensuring the right to vote…Jones’ scholars