![]() What was this common experience that seemed to unite the Black women Jones profiled across more than two hundred years? Being accosted for traveling in public. Howard’s argument came back to me while reading Martha Jones’s Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. ![]() Vanguard by Martha Jones is out now from Basic Books. She encouraged me to compare women at these moments of their lives even if they occurred at different ages. ![]() These include first marriages, first babies, menopause, or widowhood. Angela Howard, argued that women across time and space often have remarkably similar experiences if you zero in on major events in their lives. ![]()
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