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Martha S. Jones

Martha S. Jones
Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest and largest association of women historians in the United States, and she sits on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians. Author of Birthright Citizens and All Bound up Together, she has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, USA Today, and more. She lives in Baltimore, MD.


After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church

And White Suffragists Often Stood in the Way
September 10, 2020  By Martha S. Jones
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