Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage: July: Vanguard

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won The Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

 Call Number: JK1924 .J66 2020

 ISBN: 9781541618619

 Publication Date: 2020-09-08

 "The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America. 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. 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."

Dr. Paula White

Paula White is an assistant professor in the department of languages and literature at Austin Peay State University. White specializes in African American literature and Black feminist literary studies. Her research focuses on 20th-century Black women writers in Black, Southern and queer literature.

Ms. LaNeeca Williams

LaNeeça Williams is the chief diversity officer and Title IX coordinator at Austin Peay State University. She is responsible for developing and integration of the strategic plan for diversity, including recruiting diverse talent, fostering an inclusive work environment, the compliance of Title IX, and ensuring accountability of those efforts through the Office of Equity, Access and Inclusion. Ms. Williams is currently working toward a doctorate in Business and Public Leadership.