Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for AllThe epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power and how it transformed America. In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new