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Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all

Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all

Book 2021

"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed h...