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Selected Books
On Lynchings by
Call Number: Olin Library HV6457 .W393x 2002First work originally published: Southern horrors. 1892. Second work originally published: A red record. 1895. Third work originally published: Mob rule in New Orleans. 1900.Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 by
Call Number: Olin Library HV6457 .W45 1997This brief volume introduces readers to the prominent reformer and journalist Ida B. Wells and her late-nineteenth-century crusade to abolish lynching. Built around three crucial documents - Well's pamphlet Southern Horrors (1892), her essay A Red Record (1895), and her case study Mob Rule in New Orleans (1900) - the volume shows how Wells defined lynching for an international audience as an issue deserving public concern and action. The editor's introduction places lynching in its historical context and provides important background information on Well's life and career. Also included are illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography.Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by
Call Number: Africana Library E185.97.B26 A3Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was one of the foremost crusaders against black oppression. This engaging memoir tells of her private life as mother of a growing family as well as her public activities as teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight against attitudes and laws oppressing blacks.Ida: A Sword Among Lions; Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by
Call Number: Africana Library E185.97.W55 G53 2008Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching-a practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race.At the center of the national drama is Ida B. Wells (1862-1931). Born to slaves in Mississippi, Wells began her activist career by refusing to leave a first-class ladies' car on a Memphis railway and rose to lead the nation's first campaign against lynching.
Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells's Interrogation of American Terror by In an increasingly globalized economy, Sims argues that Ida B. Wellss fight against lynching is a viable option to address systemic forms of oppression. More than a century since Wells launched her anti-lynching campaign, an examination of her work questions Americas use of lynching as a tool to regulate behavior and the manner in which public opinion is shaped and lived out in the private sector.Ethical Complications of Lynchinghighlights the residual effects of lynching as a twenty-first century moral impediment in the fight to actualize ethical possibilities.
Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views by Call Number: Africana Library HV6459 .L98Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett by
Call Number: Africana Library E185.97.W55 A2x 1991Include in this work are: "Southern horrors: lynch law in all its phases" --
"The reason why the colored American is not in the world's Columbian exposition" --
"A red record: tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynching in the United States, 1892-1893-1894" --
"Mob rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and his fight to the death."
