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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers

Join the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a virtual presentation featuring acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones as recounts how Black women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot.

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 required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She 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. 

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