This event is brought to you by AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. This virtual event will begin at 2pm Eastern Standard Time. The event will be streamed live on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's YouTube page. They will explore Black women's stunning political gains in the face of overwhelming obstacles throughout the 20th century, and their continued efforts to ensure everyone has a seat at the table and a voice in shaping the country.īoth Martha Jones and Marcia Chatelain are featured historians interviewed in The Vote. The event will include an excerpt from the film and a discussion between Martha Jones and fellow historian Marcia Chatelain around the savvy political maneuvering of Black women from the fight for women's suffrage to the present. The event is produced in conjunction with the encore broadcast of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE's The Vote, on PBS. VANGUARD offers a sweeping history of African American women’s political lives in America, recounting how they fought for, won, and used the right to the ballot-fighting against both racism and sexism. 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.
Jones offers a new history of African American womens political lives in America.
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.Join AMERICAN EXPERIENCE for a discussion with internationally acclaimed historian and author Martha Jones on her new book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. 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. Jones will discuss her recent book: 'Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All,' which tells the history of Black women activists that is too-frequently left out of accounts of the struggles for racial and gender equality in the U.S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Securing their rights required a movement of their own.
But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most black women. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The epic history of African American women’s pursuit of political power - and how it transformed America.
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