Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest and largest association of women historians in the United States, and she sits on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians. Author of Birthright Citizens and All Bound up Together, she has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today, and more.She lives in Baltimore, MD.
"An extremely important work...sweepingly ambitious and makes
arguments both bold and subtle."--American Historical Review
"Bold, ambitious, and beautifully crafted, Vanguard represents more
than two hundred years of Black women's political history. From
Jarena Lee to Stacey Abrams, Martha S. Jones reminds her readers
that Black women stand as America's original feminists -- women who
continue to remind America that it must make good on its
promises."--Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Never Caught and She
Came to Slay
"In her inspiring new book, Vanguard, renowned historian Martha S.
Jones gives us a sweeping narrative for our times, grounded in the
multi-generational struggle of black women for a freedom and
equality that would not only fulfill their rights but galvanize a
broader, redemptive movement for human rights everywhere. Through
the carefully interwoven stories of famous and forgotten African
American women, together representing two hundred years of history,
Jones shows how this core of our society -- so key to winning
elections today -- also gave us 'the nation's original feminists
and antiracists.' From organizers and institution builders to
preachers and writers, journalists and activists, black women found
ways to rise up through the twin cracks of race and sex
discrimination to elevate democracy as a whole. At a moment when
that very democracy is under assault, Vanguard reminds us to look
for hope in those most denied it."--Henry Louis Gates Jr.
"Martha Jones is the political historian of African American women.
And this book is the commanding history of the remarkable struggle
of African American women for political power. The more power they
accumulated, the more equality they wrought. All Americans would be
better off learning this history and grasping just how much we owe
equality's vanguard."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning
author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an
Antiracist
"You cannot tell the history of modern democracy without the
history of Black women, and vibrating through Martha Jones's prose,
argument, and evidence is analysis that takes Black women
seriously. Vanguard brilliantly lays bare how a full accounting of
black women as powerful political actors is both past and prologue.
Martha Jones has given us a gift we do not deserve. In that way she
is as bold and necessary to our understanding of ourselves as the
women in this important work."--Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of
Thick: And Other Essays
"In her forceful and compelling history, Johns Hopkins professor
Jones corrects and enriches the conventional narrative of the noble
suffrage crusade led overwhelmingly by white women with the
determined and strategic efforts by Black women to build their own
movement to win the rights that had been denied them."--National
Book Review
"Jones' book is a welcome addition to the spate of books on woman
suffrage that have been published this year in honor of the
Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment. Through her rigorous
scholarship and out-of-the-box perspective, she sheds new and
important light on the crucial role of Black women in winning and
ensuring the right to vote...Jones' scholarship addresses a gaping
hole in suffrage literature."--New York Journal of Books
"A necessary, insightful book that shines light on Black women
underexplored in history. Jones writes narrative nonfiction at its
best."--Library Journal
"Highly charged, absorbing reading and most timely in the era of
renewed advocacy for civil rights."--Kirkus
"If you read no other book on suffrage this centennial of the 19th
Amendment, read this one. Let the incomparable historian Martha S.
Jones take you to school."--Ms.
"In her important new book, Jones shows how African American women
waged their own fight for the vote, and why their achievements
speak mightily to our present moment as voters, regardless of
gender or race."--Washington Post
"Jones has written an elegant and expansive history of Black women
who sought to build political power where they could.... Jones is
an assiduous scholar and an absorbing writer, turning to the
archives to unearth the stories of Black women who worked alongside
white suffragists only to be marginalized."--New York Times
"Thanks to Martha Jones's Vanguard, Black women's rightful place in
this history has been restored."--Foreign Affairs
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