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Ida B Wells-Barnett
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Four of Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s moving anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they elegantly speak…
Naomi E Jones
A book for high school students about the life and legacy of activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett. –Provided by publisher.
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Alison Morretta
Describes the life of the black woman journalist who was born into slavery and conducted a lifelong crusade for the civil rights of various minorities.
A classic of investigative journalism, the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a contextual introduction and useful footnotes…
On Lynchings
Ida B Wells Barnett
These shocking accounts of lynching within the Southern States during the late nineteenth century remain no less poignant today than when they were first recorded. A terrible reminder of the…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We havent used…
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Print-on-demand edition of work originally published in 1917. Text reformatted digitally.
Reproduction of the original: Mob Rule in New Orleans by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Red Record tabulates these instances of cruelty in clear, impartial figures. Ida B. Wells' original goal for the brochure was to humiliate and shock the lethargic public-and spur change-alongside…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett is the author of the book "Mob Rule in New Orleans." This is a genuine narrative of Robert Charles' struggle to survive a lynching mob as he…
"Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" is a book written by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, an African American journalist, and civil rights activist. This gruesome history of lynching in…
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders…
The investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, later Wells-Barnett, spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States. Expanding on her groundbreaking expose Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its…
Until the 1970s, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)-like so many prominent women in journalism and politics-was a forgotten figure in American culture. This edited volume takes a fresh look at this…
Collection of three key documents written by Ida B. Wells describing shocking testaments to cruelty and the dark American legacy of racial prejudice.
Published for the first time in its century, The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wellsoffers an intimate look at the hopes, thoughts and day-to-day life of the young woman who…
This volume describes many horrific instances when the law turned a blind eye to the barbaric practice of lynching, in an attempt to galvanise the public into action and put…
This volume contains a moving and disturbing account of the racial violence and lynchings that occurred in New Orleans around the 1890s, with a particular focus on the famous case…
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett records statistics concerning instances of lynching and offers vivid descriptions of the extrajudicial killings in an attempt to galvanise the public into action and put an end…
Ericka M. Miller
Miller (no credentials noted) examines the literary treatment of lynching in several Reconstruction-era texts. The writers considered describe the economic, political, and social factors contributing to race violence, and present…
