Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930

Name: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930
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ISBN: 9780807849651

ISBN-10: 0807849650

ISBN-13: 9780807849651

Edition: 2001

Authors: Patricia A. Schechter

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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…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Patricia A. Schechter is assistant professor of history at Portland State University in Oregon.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Talking Through Tears



Coming of Age in Memphis



The Body in Question



Progress Against Itself



Settlements, Suffrage, Setbacks



For Women, of Women, by Women


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index