BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Vanguard: What if Black Women Have Always Led the Movement for Voting Rights? X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T153028Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_36167135869547 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210323 DESCRIPTION:This session was previously recorded. \n\nScholar Martha S. Jon es shares her incredible research on women's suffrage and the role Black w omen played in actualizing gaining the right to vote. Her book\, is descri bed here:\n\nIn 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 th eir own.\n\nIn Vanguard\, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She rec ounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot\, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of al l persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 19 65 Voting Rights Act and beyond\, Jones excavates the lives and work of bl ack women — Maria Stewart\, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper\, Fannie Lou Ha mer\, and more — who were the vanguard of women’s rights\, calling on America to realize its best ideals. \n\nAbout the Presenter: Professor M artha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and P rofessor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cu ltural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the s tory of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Ci tizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge Univ ersity Press\, 2018)\, winner of the Organization of American Historians L iberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history\, the Americ an Historical Association Littleton Griswold Prize for the best book in Am erican legal history\, and the American Society for Legal History John Phi llip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Pr ofessor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press\, 2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black W omen (University of North Carolina Press\, 2015\, together with many impor tant articles and essay. LOCATION: SUMMARY:Vanguard: What if Black Women Have Always Led the Movement for Voti ng Rights? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/vanguard_what_if_black_wom en_have_always_led_the_movement_for_voting_rights_9814 CATEGORIES:Gatherings & Meetings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T153028Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_39387027213143 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220329 DESCRIPTION:This session was previously recorded. \n\nScholar Martha S. Jon es shares her incredible research on women's suffrage and the role Black w omen played in actualizing gaining the right to vote. Her book\, is descri bed here:\n\nIn 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 th eir own.\n\nIn Vanguard\, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She rec ounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot\, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of al l persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 19 65 Voting Rights Act and beyond\, Jones excavates the lives and work of bl ack women — Maria Stewart\, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper\, Fannie Lou Ha mer\, and more — who were the vanguard of women’s rights\, calling on America to realize its best ideals. \n\nAbout the Presenter: Professor M artha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and P rofessor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cu ltural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the s tory of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Ci tizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge Univ ersity Press\, 2018)\, winner of the Organization of American Historians L iberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history\, the Americ an Historical Association Littleton Griswold Prize for the best book in Am erican legal history\, and the American Society for Legal History John Phi llip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Pr ofessor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press\, 2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black W omen (University of North Carolina Press\, 2015\, together with many impor tant articles and essay. LOCATION: SUMMARY:Vanguard: What if Black Women Have Always Led the Movement for Voti ng Rights? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/vanguard_what_if_black_wom en_have_always_led_the_movement_for_voting_rights_9814 CATEGORIES:Gatherings & Meetings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T153028Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42720787961886 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230328 DESCRIPTION:This session was previously recorded. \n\nScholar Martha S. Jon es shares her incredible research on women's suffrage and the role Black w omen played in actualizing gaining the right to vote. Her book\, is descri bed here:\n\nIn 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 th eir own.\n\nIn Vanguard\, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She rec ounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot\, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of al l persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 19 65 Voting Rights Act and beyond\, Jones excavates the lives and work of bl ack women — Maria Stewart\, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper\, Fannie Lou Ha mer\, and more — who were the vanguard of women’s rights\, calling on America to realize its best ideals. \n\nAbout the Presenter: Professor M artha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and P rofessor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cu ltural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the s tory of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Ci tizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge Univ ersity Press\, 2018)\, winner of the Organization of American Historians L iberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history\, the Americ an Historical Association Littleton Griswold Prize for the best book in Am erican legal history\, and the American Society for Legal History John Phi llip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Pr ofessor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press\, 2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black W omen (University of North Carolina Press\, 2015\, together with many impor tant articles and essay. LOCATION: SUMMARY:Vanguard: What if Black Women Have Always Led the Movement for Voti ng Rights? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/vanguard_what_if_black_wom en_have_always_led_the_movement_for_voting_rights_9814 CATEGORIES:Gatherings & Meetings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260915T153028Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52709481616231 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250428 DESCRIPTION:This session was previously recorded. \n\nScholar Martha S. Jon es shares her incredible research on women's suffrage and the role Black w omen played in actualizing gaining the right to vote. Her book\, is descri bed here:\n\nIn 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 th eir own.\n\nIn Vanguard\, acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history of African American women’s political lives in America. She rec ounts how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot\, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of al l persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 19 65 Voting Rights Act and beyond\, Jones excavates the lives and work of bl ack women — Maria Stewart\, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper\, Fannie Lou Ha mer\, and more — who were the vanguard of women’s rights\, calling on America to realize its best ideals. \n\nAbout the Presenter: Professor M artha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and P rofessor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cu ltural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the s tory of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Ci tizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge Univ ersity Press\, 2018)\, winner of the Organization of American Historians L iberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history\, the Americ an Historical Association Littleton Griswold Prize for the best book in Am erican legal history\, and the American Society for Legal History John Phi llip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Pr ofessor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press\, 2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black W omen (University of North Carolina Press\, 2015\, together with many impor tant articles and essay. LOCATION: SUMMARY:Vanguard: What if Black Women Have Always Led the Movement for Voti ng Rights? URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.mtholyoke.edu/event/vanguard_what_if_black_wom en_have_always_led_the_movement_for_voting_rights_9814 CATEGORIES:Gatherings & Meetings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR