{"id":60239,"date":"2020-10-28T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60239"},"modified":"2020-10-28T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:12:03","slug":"historian-martha-s-jones-on-the-power-of-black-women-that-led-to-kamala-harris-nod-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60239","title":{"rendered":"Historian Martha S. Jones on the Power of Black Women That Led to Kamala Harris’ Nod for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian Martha S. Jones on the Power of Black Women That Led to Kamala Harris’ Nod for VP<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

People Magazine<\/a>
\n2020-10-26<\/p>\n

People Staff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nProfessor Martha S. Jones<\/a> | CREDIT: BASIC BOOKS<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

PEOPLE\u2019s Voices from the Fight Against Racism will amplify Black perspectives on the push for equality and justice<\/em><\/p>\n

Americans are taught that the fight for women’s suffrage ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment<\/a> in 1920. In actuality, another battle against voter suppression was just beginning for Black American women. In her new book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All<\/em><\/a>, Martha S. Jones<\/a>, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, explains how Black women campaigned for voting equality for all people, from the beginning of U.S. history, through the passing of the 19th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965<\/a>, to the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement of today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here, Jones, a prize-winning historian, tells PEOPLE what she’s learned from the long line of brave Black suffragists in her own family \u2014 and how the history of such activists can guide modern-day Americans as they confront voter suppression in the Nov. 3 presidential election. She also explains how Black women have become one of the most powerful forces in U.S. elections. (“Black American women vote as a bloc,” says Jones, “and that’s part of what makes their vote so dangerous.”)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I write in an office where portraits of the women in my family hang on the wall. They are there because they inspire me, but they’re also there because I am accountable to them. When I write a history about women and the vote, I know that they want me to write a history that is true to the archives. But they also want me to write a history that has meaning in our own time, because I think they would recognize the urgency around voting rights that we are confronting in the 21st century and how it is not so different from the challenges that they faced a hundred years ago…<\/p>\n

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