6/21/2023 0 Comments Vanguard by martha s jonesThose interested can register for the March 10 talk online. I am really excited to hear what she has to say.” “With everything that happened in Georgia, with people like Stacey Abrams and with Kamala Harris as the vice president, it just feels so perfect to have her speak this March,” Yarbrough said. Jones’ March 10 talk is organized by the School of Humanities Dean’s Office, the Department of History and Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Rice. from the City University of New York School of Law, and prior to her academic career served as a public interest litigator in New York City. in history from Columbia University and a J.D. In addition to “Vanguard,” her 2018 book, “ Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America,” was equally well received, winning the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award and the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize among many others.Īs a public historian, Jones has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, T he Atlantic, Politico, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Time. "Vanguard" was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 best books of 2020.Īs a legal and cultural historian, Jones’ research examines how Black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. In the early pages of Vanguard, Martha Jones introduces readers to Susan Davis, her great-great-grandmother, who was born enslaved in Kentucky in 1840 but understood the importance of the vote.'Susan learned a critical lesson in those years,' Jones writes, 'without the vote, Black Americans had to build other routes to political power' (2).
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