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

byMartha S. Jones

Focused on how Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, Vanguard brings Martha S. Jones's biographical portrait to a complex and consequential subject. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Together, these elements make Vanguard an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

Sep 08, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781541618619