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).
The event is part of a yearlong virtual series, Long Rhode to the Vote: Suffrage Centennial Lecture Series.