Jones gives us a sweeping narrative for our times, grounded in the multi-generational struggle of black women for a freedom and equality that would not only fulfill their rights but galvanize a broader, redemptive movement for human rights everywhere. 'In her inspiring new book, Vanguard, renowned historian Martha S.

Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist

All Americans would be better off learning this history and grasping just how much we owe equality's vanguard.'- Ibram X. The more power they accumulated, the more equality they wrought. And this book is the commanding history of the remarkable struggle of African American women for political power. 'Martha Jones is the political historian of African American women. 'Highly charged, absorbing reading and most timely in the era of renewed advocacy for civil rights.'- Kirkus Jones writes narrative nonfiction at its best.”- Library Journal “A necessary, insightful book that shines light on Black women underexplored in history. “In her forceful and compelling history, Johns Hopkins professor Jones corrects and enriches the conventional narrative of the noble suffrage crusade led overwhelmingly by white women with the determined and strategic efforts by Black women to build their own movement to win the rights that had been denied them.”- National Book Review “Thanks to Martha Jones’s Vanguard, Black women’s rightful place in this history has been restored.'- Foreign Affairs 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’ scholarship addresses a gaping hole in suffrage literature.”- New York Journal of Books “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. “If you read no other book on suffrage this centennial of the 19th Amendment, read this one.

'In her important new book, Jones shows how African American women waged their own fight for the vote, and why their achievements speak mightily to our present moment as voters, regardless of gender or race.'- Washington Post Jones is an assiduous scholar and an absorbing writer, turning to the archives to unearth the stories of Black women who worked alongside white suffragists only to be marginalized.'- New York Times 'Jones has written an elegant and expansive history of Black women who sought to build political power where they could.

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