Curated Recommendations

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones (Basic Books, 2020)

Dr. Jones’s eagerly anticipated new book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All, is here! Flattening the popular account that portrays the woman suffrage movement as beginning in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ending with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Jones calls into question that monolithic recounting, brings to light the contributions of Black women, and articulates the necessity for Black women to forge a movement of their own in a historical narrative rooted long before Seneca Falls to secure equal and equitable voting rights that continues on to the present day.

- Lori Ann Terjesen, NWHM Director of Education