History Professor Dr. Karen Leroux and Drake student Katherine Crockett will co-facilitate a discussion of Martha S. Jones’s book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All .  This discussion will be held in Cowles Library Reading Room at Drake University on Monday April 4, 2022 at 5:30pm.

This event is the third in a series of five book discussions made possible by a grant from the American Library Association and supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. More than 100 institutions nationwide applied for the Let’s Talk About It Women’s Suffrage grant, which is designed to spark conversations about American history and culture through an examination of the women’s suffrage movement.

Selections from the book are available for the campus community to preview by visiting https://researchguides.drake.edu/suffrage, and at the outset of the discussion, five lucky attendees will receive grant-provided copies of the book.  Please join us to talk more about this important history.

For more information on the series, please contact any member of the LTAI Women’s Suffrage Planning Committee:  Jill Allen, Hope Bibens, Carrie Dunham-LaGree, and Karen Leroux.