Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), an African American journalist, was an active crusader against lynching and a champion of social and political justice for African Americans.Ida B. Wells was born a s...
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), an African American journalist, was an active crusader against lynching and a champion of social and political justice for African Americans. Ida B. Wells was born a ...
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During her early twenties in Memphis, Tennessee, Ida B. Wells emerged as "the brilliant Iola," a pen name she often used as a journalist, whose forthright style and incisive political critique gained ...
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an investigative journalist whose factual reporting and scholarly analysis of lynchings provided the genesis for what later became a prominent movement in the United States. A...
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In the following excerpt from a rhetorical analysis of the speeches of Sojourner Truth, Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell, Campbell points out that Wells-Barnett's style shares many aspect...
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In the following chapter from her full-length study of a number of autobiographical narratives written by African-American women, Braxton analyzes Wells-Barnett's Crusade for Justice both as an...
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In the following full-length study of the ways Wells-Barnett's life typified the experience of African-American women reformers of her day, Townes examines the social and moral content of Wells...
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In the following essay, Boyd reviews two books and one film which have helped to revive interest in Wells-Barnett's life and works.
One hundred and one years ago, the Worlds Congress of Represe...
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In the following review, Foreman gives a favorable assessment of a published edition of Wells-Barnett's diary.
To know Ida B. Wells, more than a hundred years after she launched her journalisti...
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In the following chapter from her biography of Wells-Barnett, McMurry discusses the social and rhetorical contexts of her subject's early anti-lynching lectures.
Soon after moving to Memphis, I...
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Ida B. Wells showed from a young age that she was willing to work vigorously to attain the impossible through her efforts to retain her family by becoming a parent to six of her siblings at the age of...
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Ida. B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
