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LocationOakland
Call NoHISTORY AFRICAN AMERICAN
TitleVanguard : how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all / Martha S. Jones.
AuthorJones, Martha S., author.
Barcode529196
CollectionNF History
Summary"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed 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. From 1830s Boston to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and beyond to Shirley Chisholm, Stacey Abrams, and Kamala Harris, Jones 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 other hidden figures 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. In the twenty-first century, Black women's power at the polls and in politics is evident. Vanguard reveals that this power is not at all new, but is instead the culmination of two centuries of dramatic struggle"-- Provided by publisher.
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International Standard Book Number 9781541600256 (paperback)
International Standard Book Number 1541600258 (paperback)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 323.3/4092396073 23
Personal Name Jones, Martha S., author.
Title Statement Vanguard : how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all / Martha S. Jones.
Edition Statement First trade paperback edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Main text ©2020.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New preface ©2021.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : Basic Books, 2021.
Physical Description xvii, 341 p. illustrations, portraits ; Softcover 25 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-326) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Preface to the paperback edition -- 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.
Summary, Etc. "According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed 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. From 1830s Boston to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and beyond to Shirley Chisholm, Stacey Abrams, and Kamala Harris, Jones 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 other hidden figures 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. In the twenty-first century, Black women's power at the polls and in politics is evident. Vanguard reveals that this power is not at all new, but is instead the culmination of two centuries of dramatic struggle"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women suffragists History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women social reformers History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African American women political activists History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans Suffrage History.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women Suffrage United States History.
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Index Term-Genre/Form Creative nonfiction. lcgft.
Index Term-Genre/Form Instructional and educational works. lcgft.