Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
Basic Books/Hachette Book Group
Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women's political lives in America. Vanguard takes us back — from the fight for the ballot up to the present — and situates 21st century Black women's power at the polls and in our politics as the culmination of two centuries of dramatic struggle that transformed America for the better.