{"id":6421,"date":"2021-10-20T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=189551"},"modified":"2021-10-20T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:27:08","slug":"african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"African-American women\u2019s battle for the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Martha S Jones discusses her Cundill History Prize<\/a>-shortlisted book Vanguard<\/em>, which charts African-American women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Martha S Jones is the author of <em>Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All<\/em> (Basic Books, 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Vanguard-Black-Barriers-Insisted-Equality\/dp\/B08H5RPQBV?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-0"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""sponsored" noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/"\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\""https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/african-americanwomen-sbattleforthevote\/media.mp3"\"><span class=\""standard-button__iefix"\"><span class=\""standard-button__visible"\"><span class=\""standard-button__inner"\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\""lazy"\" style=\""border-radius:\" src=\""https:\/\/historyextra.podlink.to\/Podcast?embed=true"\" width=\""480"\" height=\""900"\" frameborder=\""0"\" data-mce-fragment=\""1"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 12:00 am Martha S Jones discusses her Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book Vanguard, which charts African-American women\u2019s 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. Martha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6422,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/african-american-womens-battle-for-the-vote.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Wednesday, 20 October 2021 at 12:00 am Martha S Jones discusses her Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book Vanguard, which charts African-American women\u2019s 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. Martha…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}