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Buchzusammenfassung

Martha S. Jones is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She is a former co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest association of women historians in the US, and currently sits on the executive board of the Society for American Historians. Jones’s previous books include Birthright Citizens and All Bound Together. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post.

James Vardaman, the newly elected senator from Mississippi, arrived in Washington in 1913 with a goal. He was determined to keep Black Americans out of politics. Seeing an opportunity, Vardaman brought up the issue of women's voting rights. He suggested a "compromise" where women could vote, but only if the Fifteenth Amendment was repealed. Despite nineteen senators supporting his proposal, it was defeated by forty-eight others. This incident served as a reminder that expanding voting rights did not guarantee progress for Black Americans. Mary McLeod Bethune took up the cause in the Jim Crow South after women gained the right to vote in 1920.

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