Martha S. Jones

There’s A Long History Behind Stacey Abrams

Historian Martha S. Jones places Stacey Abrams's political leadership in Georgia in the historical context of Black women's political organizing and activism. 

'It's a Struggle They Will Wage Alone.' How Black Women Earned the Right to Vote

by Olivia Waxman

Historian Martha S. Jones discusses her new book "Vanguard" and the way that the 19th Amendment marked a beginning, rather than an end, of the struggle to secure the vote for all women. 

Tackling a Century-Old Mystery: Did My Grandmother Vote?

by Martha S. Jones

The historian of Black women's fight to secure the vote had a question of family history to solve that drove her research.