Books on ida b wells

List of books and articles about ida wellsbarnett online research. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. Lynch law in all its phases and the red record tabulated statistics and alleged causes of. Wells 1862 1931 was an africanamerican journalist, suffragist, feminist, and early leader in the civil rights movement. Shop the latest titles by ida b wells at alibris including hardcovers, paperbacks, 1st editions, and audiobooks from thousands of sellers worldwide. On one fateful train ride from memphis to nashville, in may 1884, wells reached a personal turning point. Mother of the civil rights movement dennis brindell fradin and judith bloom fradin hougton mifflin company, 2000 178 pages. Wellsbarnett has 88 books on goodreads with 971 ratings. Wells is writing a biography of the pioneering africanamerican journalist and activist. Because her parents were slaves, that meant ida was born enslaved, too. An exploratory study of an american black woman, 18931930.

Wellsbarnett was an africanamerican woman of striking courage and conviction. Wells papers consists of six linear feet of original manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper and journal articles written and compiled by ida b. In this hardhitting yet heartfelt analysis, historians meeks standing on their shoulders and stroupe while we run this race use gilded age reformer ida b. As a skilled writer, wellsbarnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of african americans throughout the south.

Wells negro american biographies and autobiographies by ida b. Wellss refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a dangerous radical in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. Wells was born to elizabeth and james wells on july 16, 1862. Wells went to heroic lengths in the late 1890s to document the horrifying practice of lynching blacks. Wellsbarnett raised a lone voice of protest and was forced to flee for her life. And i am not sure what it was, but the image stuck with me. Selected fulltext books and articles to keep the waters troubled. The experience shaped wellss career, andwhen hate crimes touched her life personally. Wellsbarnett, known for much of her public career as ida b.

This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates wellss private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. Raised in mississippi after the civil war, wells worked her way through rust college and taught school in. She went on to found and become integral in groups. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, womens rights advocate, and journalist. Wellsbarnetts most popular book is southern horrors and other writings. The amount of material in the collection is rather small due to two house fires 1915 and 1923 that destroyed virtually all of her personal and professional papers. An activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror of lynching, she used fierce determination and the power of the pen to educate the world about the unequal treatment of blacks in the united states.

So began the civil rights pioneers crusade against lynching. Wells would go on to coown a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the national association for the advancement of colored people naacp, and. One signal publishers announced thursday that michelle dusters ida b. This updated edition includes a new foreword by eve l. This picture book biography introduces the extraordinary ida b. Wells was a founder of the national association for the advancement of colored people naacp, and she helped black women win the right to vote. A sword among lions is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle. Wells, was an antilynching activist, a muckraking journalist, a lecturer, and a militant activist for racial justice.

She was protesting the lack of african american representation at the chicago worlds fair. Wells 18621931 is brought vividly to life in this accessible and wellresearched biography. Good press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. You could feel a power in the presence of the lady with the pamphlets. Wellsbarnetts achievements were the publication of a detailed book about lynching entitled a red record 1895, the cofounding of the national association for the advancement of colored people naacp, and the founding of what may have been the first black womens suffrage group. This play shares the life and accomplishments of ida b. She achieved nationwide attention as leader of the antilynching crusade. Wellsbarnett 18621931 was a prominent journalist, suffragist, and cofounder of the national association for the advancement of colored people naacp. Wikimedia commons once skimmed over in history books, ida b. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for african americans.

Octavia butlers prescient fiction, including dawn, kindred and parable of the sower, resonates years after her death more. Wells barnetts most popular book is southern horrors and other writings. Wellsbarnett was one of the first africanamericans to raise an informed protest against this outrage. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. Wellsbarnett helen frost chelsea house publishers, 2004 32 pages. She used investigative journalism techniques to document and expose lynching in the united states. Includes a play, biographical information, quotations, and meaningful questions. They both were enslaved on a farm in holly springs, mississippi. Wellsbarnett, educator turned journalist, and inspires discussions and writing about this remarkable american. Long before boycotts, sitins, and freedom rides, ida b. The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and womens rights pioneer seventyone years before rosa parkss courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named ida b. Wells was an africanamerican journalist and activist who led an antilynching crusade in the united states in the 1890s. Wells and the campaign against lynching giddings, paula j.

Wells began writing her autobiography, crusade for justice 1928, but never finished the book. She was one of the original founders of the naacp national association of the advancement of colored people in 1909. Wells awarded pulitzer prize 9 decades after her death that a black woman, born into slavery, used the resources she had for justice, used journalism as a tool to combat an. Wells ida bell wellsbarnett, better known as ida b. Wells, including the red record, southern horrors and many more. Paula giddings has written a book as priceless as its subject. The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Wellsbarnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Wells and barnett are interred together in the oak woods cemetery in chicago.

Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, ida. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of african americans. But on january 1, 1863, when ida was less than six months old, president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation. Wells took it upon herself to document this shameful practice and its prevalence throughout the region and, to a lesser extent, the entire country in a series of seminal volumes, including southern. Wells was an african american journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an antilynching crusade in the united states in the 1890s. Wells negro american biographies and autobiographies, and on lynchings classics in black studies, and more on. Her groundbreaking work, which included collecting statistics in a practice that today is called data journalism, established that the lawless killing of blacks was a systematic practice, especially in the south in the era following reconstruction. The red record tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynching in the united states language.