For Evening Book Club, we will be discussing Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones. We will meet at 6:00 on Monday, May 3 via Zoom. If you are interested, please feel free to join us even if you haven't read the book. Please contact Heidi Kloempken (heidi.kloempken@gmail.com) if you would like the Zoom information for the meeting.
About: 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.
