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

by Martha S. Jones

The epic history of African American women’s pursuit of political power — and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

Sep 08, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781541618619