On Wednesday, April 21, at 6 p.m., the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities hosted Leslie Harris in conversation with Martha Jones on her groundbreaking book Vanguard:...
Keyword: Jim Crow
Author Interview, Voting Rights, Humanities Nebraska
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All
Professor Jennifer Harbour interviews Martha S. Jones about “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All,” selected by...
Tonya Scott-Williams and series poet Ashley M. Jones engage in conversation with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, host of the Teaching Hard History podcast and author of...
“Join host Tonya Scott-Williams and project poet (and Alabama Poet Laureate) Ashley M. Jones for an interview with Dr. Tara White, history instructor at Wallace...
Lecture, Voting Rights, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished
The passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 did not win women the right to vote—despite repeated claims that it did. Just what, then, did the women’s suffrage amendment do...