Martha Jones
"Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All"
Dr. Martha Jones will discuss her new book Vanguard, a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. The book recounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of black women — Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more — who were the vanguard of women’s rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.
Martha Jones
Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
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4:00 - 5:30 PM
This talk is part of the History Speaker Series and is co-sponsored by the Department of History and Philosophy at Jackson State University. For more information please contact Dr. Ashley Johnson Bavery at abavery@emich.edu.
