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Lynching --- African Americans --- History --- Felton, Rebecca Latimer, --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- Southern States --- Social conditions.
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"Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) is now a Chicago icon and a shining example of fearless grit and truth-telling. Born into slavery, she lost both parents at the age of sixteen and supported five siblings by teaching school. As perhaps the first investigative journalist, she crusaded against lynching and for women's suffrage. She worked with Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony; she co-founded the NAACP and started the Alpha Suffrage Club here in Chicago; she is the first African American woman to have a street named after her in Chicago. This autobiography, edited by Ida B.'s daughter, Afreda Duster, was first published 1970 in a series edited by John Hope Franklin. Alfreda's daughter, Michelle Duster, who has spent years championing her grandmother's memory, has provided a new afterword. We are bringing out the Second Edition to mark the centennial (June, 2020) of Illinois ratifying the 19th amendment, giving women the vote. 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"--
African American women --- African American women. --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- Sociology of minorities --- Wells, Ida B. --- United States --- United States of America --- Slavery --- Autobiography --- Women --- Blackness --- Book --- Abolitionism
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American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged-and strengthened-by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American political thought that is an invaluable component of contemporary struggles for racial justice.Zamalin looks at the language and concepts put forward by the abolitionists David Walker and Frederick Douglass, the antilynching activist Ida B. Wells, the Black Panther Party organizer Huey Newton, and the prison abolitionist Angela Davis. Each helped revise and transform ideas about power, justice, community, action, and the role of emotion in political action. Their thought encouraged abolitionists to call for the eradication of slavery, black journalists to chastise American institutions for their indifference to lynching, and black radicals to police the police and to condemn racial injustice in the American prison system. Taken together, these movements pushed political theory forward, offering new language and concepts to sustain democracy in tense times. Struggle on Their Minds is a critical text for our contemporary moment, showing how the political thought that comes out of resistance can energize the practice of democratic citizenship and ultimately help address the prevailing problem of racial injustice.
African Americans --- African American intellectuals. --- lavery --- Politics and government. --- Political activity --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Influence. --- Walker, David, --- Douglass, Frederick, --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- Newton, Huey P. --- Davis, Angela Y. --- Political and social views.
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During the early 1890's, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a "black lady reformer"-a role American society denied her-and assert her right to defend her race from abroad. Based on extensive
Public opinion --- Social reformers --- Civil rights workers --- Lynching --- African American women social reformers --- African American women civil rights workers --- African American women --- Homicide --- Afro-American women social reformers --- Women social reformers, African American --- Women social reformers --- History --- Foreign public opinion, British. --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- Wells, Ida B., --- Barnett, Ida B. Wells-, --- Iola, --- Travels. --- Travel. --- Wells, Ida Barnett --- Voyages around the world --- Biography --- United States --- Foreign public opinion [British ] --- Great Britain --- 18th century --- Anti-lynching movements
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African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is remembered mainly for her anti-lynching crusade in the 1890's. This work seeks to restore her to her central place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad.
African American women civil rights workers --- Civil rights workers --- African American women social reformers --- African American women political activists --- African American women journalists --- Lynching --- African Americans --- Women's rights --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Wells-Barnett, Ida B., --- United States --- Race relations. --- Afro-American women journalists --- Women journalists, African American --- Afro-American women political activists --- Women political activists, African American --- Afro-American women social reformers --- Women social reformers, African American --- Wells, Ida B., --- Barnett, Ida B. Wells-, --- Iola, --- Race question --- Homicide --- Women journalists --- Women political activists --- Women social reformers --- Anti-lynching movements
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