![]() ![]() The Los Angeles Times Book Prize aims to support new voices and celebrate the highest quality writing. And Vice President Harris embodies a challenge to all Americans: It is time to know Black women's political history. "All Americans got a lesson on how Black women have established themselves in the political sphere when then-Senator Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president, invoking six women on whose shoulders she stands: Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Diane Nash, Constance Baker Motley, and Shirley Chisholm. The book also emerged as an essential primer for the 2020 election cycle, Jones says. ![]() I think the book has succeeded in establishing Black women as among the architects of American democracy." "We were going to mark the 100th anniversary of the women's suffrage amendment, and I knew that Black women's contributions to the struggle for voting rights might be overlooked amidst commemorations and celebrations. " Vanguard was the book I needed to read in 2020," Jones says. ![]() And this book is the commanding history of the remarkable struggle of African American women for political power." Kendi said, "Martha Jones is the political historian of African American women. ![]() The New York Times called the book "an elegant and expansive history," while the National Book Review called it "forceful and compelling." National Book Award–winning author Ibram X. ![]()
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