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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All audiobook runs 10.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Mela Lee (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.7listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All at common listening paces
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30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.7 hours, it runs longer than 76% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All is an audiobook by Martha S. Jones: a 10.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Mela Lee, released September 8, 2020, on the Social Science and The Americas shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.7 hrs
Narrated by
Mela Lee
Released
September 8, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, The Americas
ISBN
9781549190155

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All audiobook?

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All runs 10.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.

Is the Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All audiobook free?

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Who narrates Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All?

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All is narrated by Mela Lee.

Is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.6 hours.