The red record; Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an early figure in the civil rights movement. She was born into slavery. She gained her freedom when the Emancipation Proclamation was declared. She suffered through various hardships, and became a journalist. She investigated the horrors of lynching and proved that it wasn't a tool of justice, but that it was a tool of terror and oppression.
Reproduction of the original: The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
In this new edition Jacqueline Jones Royster sheds light on the specific events, such as the yellow fever epidemic, that spurred Wells’s progression towards activism.
Though his ultimate refusal to submit to white male rule results in the savage mutilation of his body, the final legacy of Bras-Coupe's enslavement is the white anxiety and guilt produced by that punishment and the anger his death ...
Ida Bell Wells, later Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), was an African American civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate active in the Woman women's rights Fearless in her opposition to lynchings, Wells documented hundreds of ...
Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader Ida B. Wells Mia Bay, Henry Louis Gates. ARTICLES ON THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD Wells - Barnett's most ambitious publications from the 1920s are the following series of articles on the Mississippi Flood ...
With a contextual introduction and useful footnotes, this book gives students an opportunity to analyze and interpret primary texts.
Three pamphlets by a civil rights pioneer chronicle some of the most regrettable incidents in American history. Wells–Barnett's meticulous research and documentation of crimes from the 1890s offer priceless historical testimony.
Wells was active in the suffrage movement. The new edition has been re-designed and includes four new halftones and a new foreword by Eve Ewing"--
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