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Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American reform, 1880-1930
2001,2003
Overview
Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled, place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Schechter's comprehensive treatment makes vivid the scope of Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually became marginalized.
Though forced into the shadow of black male leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and misunderstood and then ignored by white women reformers such as Frances E. Willard and Jane Addams, Wells-Barnett nevertheless successfully enacted a religiously inspired, female-centered, and intensely political vision of social betterment and empowerment for African American communities throughout her adult years. By analyzing her ideas and activism in fresh sharpness and detail, Schechter exposes the promise and limits of social change by and for black women during an especially violent yet hopeful era in U.S. history.
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press
Subject
/ African American women civil rights workers
/ African American women civil rights workers Biography
/ African American women journalists
/ African American women journalists Biography
/ African American women political activists
/ African American women political activists Biography
/ African American women social reformers
/ African American women social reformers Biography
/ Afro-Americans -- Politics and government
/ Civil rights workers -- United States Biography
/ History
/ Lynching
/ Lynching -- United States -- History
/ United States -- Race relations
ISBN
0807826332, 0807849650, 9780807826331, 9780807849651, 9780807875469, 0807875465
