African-American women’s battle for the vote

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Martha S Jones discusses her Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book Vanguard, which charts African-American women’s long and determined fight for the vote. She speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about how the battle for suffrage connected to other issues and a wider struggle for political power. (Ad) Martha S Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (Basic Books, 2020). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vanguard-Black-Barriers-Insisted-Equality/dp/1541618610/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-viewingguide Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.7	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
1:30.8	I'm Ellie Cawthorne. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution supposedly granted all American women the right to vote. But for black women, the reality was not so simple. This seemingly
1:37.1	milestone moment in the history of US women's suffrage was just one small step in a 200-year
1:43.8	struggle for African-American women to gain the vote.
1:47.1	A struggle that's charted by Martha S. Jones in her Kundel Prize shortlisted book, Vanguard.
1:53.4	I spoke to Martha about how black women's battle for the vote tied into other contemporary issues
1:59.4	and a wider fight for political power. VanGarde looks at
2:03.3	African-American women's long battle for the vote and for political power more generally in the
2:09.0	United States. What made you really want to write this book? Or it might be more accurate to say
2:14.4	what made you realize that this book needed to be written?
2:17.8	I knew that in 2020, the U.S. was going to be marking 100 years of women's suffrage.
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