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

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First Edition: September 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jones, Martha S., author.

Title: Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all / Martha S. Jones.

Description: First edition. | New York : Basic Books, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020006087 | ISBN 9781541618619 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781541618602 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Suffrage—History. | Women—Suffrage—United States—History. | African American women suffragists—History. | African American women social reformers—History.

Classification: LCC JK1924.J66 2020 | DDC 323.3/4092396073—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006087

ISBNs: 978-1-5416-1861-9 (hardcover), 978-1-5416-1860-2 (ebook)

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