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All along they argued that birth guaranteed their rights.

Former slaves studied law, secured allies, and conducted themselves like citizens, establishing their status through local, everyday claims. Jones explains, no single case defined their status. They faced formidable opposition, most notoriously from the US Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Clements Library, and collaborations with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the American Experience, the Southern Poverty Law Center, PBS, Netflix, and Arte (France.) Professor Jones is an immediate past co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and serves on the boards of the Society of American Historians, the National Women's History Museum, the US Capitol Historical Society, the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Journal of African American History, and Slavery & Abolition.īirthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans. Professor Jones is recognized as a public historian, frequently writing for broader audiences at outlets including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, USA Today, Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Time, the curatorship of museum exhibitions including “Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L.

(2020) Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (2015), together with many important articles and essay.

Her latest book is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Rights for All. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018), winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history, the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American legal history, and the American Society for Legal History John Phillip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University.