How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Martha Jones
Eleanor Carlson Lecture of Gender and Women’s Studies
Thursday, October 15, 7 p.m.

Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, will give a virtual talk on race and suffrage. Professor Jones’s books include Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020) and Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018). She is the winner of the Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history, the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American legal history, and the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history.

Book cover for Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones. The cover illustration shows people in line, waiting to vote.

To purchase Professor Jones’s book, How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020), please visit the URI Campus Store website to order online, or you may obtain a copy in person Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Honors Program.