Tanner Humanities Lecture: A Conversation With Martha S. Jones February is Black History Month, but even those of us who grew up learning a few names of notable historical African-Americans probably can't come up with a female name beyond Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. The history of Black women in America has been a history of struggle against two cultural obstacles to equality—race and sex. And even as the 2020 election elevated the significance of Black women as a game-changing voting bloc, and made Stacey Abrams a figure of national importance, that reality wasn't possible without the work of many mostly-forgotten pioneers.