Ida B Wells

Author : Michelle Duster
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250867704

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Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth by Michelle Duster Pdf

Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth is an inspiring picture book biography of the groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster and illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award Honoree artist Laura Freeman. Ida B. Wells was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women’s club leader. She was a founder of the NAACP, the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, the Alpha Suffrage Club, and the Negro Fellowship League. She wrote, spoke, and traveled, challenging the racist and sexist norms of her time. Faced with criticism and threats to her life, she never gave up. This is her extraordinary true story, as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster and beautifully brought to life by Coretta Scott King Award Honoree artist Laura Freeman.

Author : Patricia A. Schechter
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807875469

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 by Patricia A. Schechter Pdf

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.

Author : Michelle Duster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982129828

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Ida B. the Queen by Michelle Duster Pdf

Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI, this made her a “dangerous negro agitator.” In the annals of history, it makes her an icon. Ida B. the Queen tells the awe-inspiring story of an pioneering woman who was often overlooked and underestimated—a woman who refused to exit a train car meant for white passengers; a woman brought to light the horrors of lynching in America; a woman who cofounded the NAACP. Written by Wells’s great-granddaughter Michelle Duster, this “warm remembrance of a civil rights icon” (Kirkus Reviews) is a unique visual celebration of Wells’s life, and of the Black experience. A century after her death, Wells’s genius is being celebrated in popular culture by politicians, through song, public artwork, and landmarks. Like her contemporaries Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, Wells left an indelible mark on history—one that can still be felt today. As America confronts the unfinished business of systemic racism, Ida B. the Queen pays tribute to a transformational leader and reminds us of the power we all hold to smash the status quo.

Author : Sarah Fabiny,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593093375

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Who Was Ida B. Wells? by Sarah Fabiny,Who HQ Pdf

The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous Black female journalist in nineteenth-century America. Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see how just how unjust the world was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and fight for women's right to vote.

Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226691565

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Crusade for Justice by Ida B. Wells Pdf

The NAACP co-founder, civil rights activist, educator, and journalist recounts her public and private life in this classic memoir. Born to enslaved parents, Ida B. Wells was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster. “No student of black history should overlook Crusade for Justice.” —William M. Tuttle, Jr., Journal of American History

Author : Diane Bailey
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534424852

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Ida B. Wells by Diane Bailey Pdf

Jeter Publishing presents a brand-new series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history but may not be as well-known as their counterparts. Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. On one fateful train ride from Memphis to Nashville, in May 1884, Wells reached a personal turning point. Having bought a first-class train ticket, she was outraged when the train crew ordered her to move to the car for African Americans. She refused and was forcibly removed from the train—but not before she bit one of the men on the hand. Wells sued the railroad, winning a $500 settlement. However, the decision was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court. This injustice led Ida B. Wells to pick up a pen to write about issues of race and politics in the South. Using the moniker “Iola,” a number of her articles were published in black newspapers and periodicals. Wells eventually became an owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, and, later, of the Free Speech. She even took on the subject of lynching, and in 1898, Wells brought her anti-lynching campaign to the White House, leading a protest in Washington, DC, and calling for President William McKinley to make reforms. Ida B. Wells never backed down in the fight for justice.

Author : Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781846375927

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The Red Record by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Pdf

Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Author : Sarah L. Silkey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820345574

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Black Woman Reformer by Sarah L. Silkey Pdf

Through extensive archival research, Silkey explores Wells's 1893-94 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century transatlantic reformation. Wells's speaking engagements and newspaper interviews reframed public debates on lynching in Britain and the United States and transformed our understanding of racial violence.

Author : Kristina DuRocher
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317662204

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Ida B. Wells by Kristina DuRocher Pdf

Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the African American community. A Southern black woman living in a time when little social power was available to people of her race or gender, Ida B. Wells made an extraordinary impact on American society through her journalism and activism. Best-known for her anti-lynching crusade, which publicly exposed the extralegal killings of African Americans, Wells was also an outspoken advocate for social justice in issues including women's suffrage, education, housing, the legal system, and poor relief. In this concise biography, Kristina DuRocher introduces students to Wells's life and the historical issues of race, gender, and social reform in the late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. Supplemented by primary documents including letters, speeches, and newspaper articles by and about Wells, and supported by a robust companion website, this book enables students to understand this fascinating figure and a contested period in American history.

Author : Ida B. Wells
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698141834

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The Light of Truth by Ida B. Wells Pdf

The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells’s career, and—when hate crimes touched her life personally—she mounted what was to become her life’s work: an anti-lynching crusade that captured international attention. This volume covers the entire scope of Wells’s remarkable career, collecting her early writings, articles exposing the horrors of lynching, essays from her travels abroad, and her later journalism. The Light of Truth is both an invaluable resource for study and a testament to Wells’s long career as a civil rights activist. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781682633106

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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells by Philip Dray Pdf

The award-winning picture book tells the inspirational story of journalist Ida B. Wells and her crusade for justice and civil rights. A must-have for American, Black, and women's history collections. In 1863, when Ida B. Wells was not yet two years old, the Emancipation Proclamation freed her from the bond of slavery. Blessed with a strong will, an eager mind, and a deep belief in America's promise of "freedom and justice for all," young Ida held her family together, defied society's conventions, and used her position as a journalist to speak against injustice. But Ida's greatest challenge arose after one of her friends was lynched. How could one headstrong young woman help free America from the looming "shadow of lawlessness"? Author Philip Dray tells the inspirational story of Ida B. Wells and her lifelong commitment to end injustice. Stephen Alcorn's remarkable illustrations recreate the tensions that threatened to upend a nation while paying tribute to a courageous American hero.

Author : Linda McMurry Edwards,Linda O. McMurry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195088123

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To Keep the Waters Troubled by Linda McMurry Edwards,Linda O. McMurry Pdf

Describes the life of the Black woman journalist who conducted a lifelong crusade for racial justice and women's rights in the period after Reconstruction

Author : Joseph Nazel
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870677853

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Ida B. Wells by Joseph Nazel Pdf

Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher : Amistad
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0060544686

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Ida B. Wells by Walter Dean Myers Pdf

Ida B. Wells was an extraordinary woman. Long before boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides, Ida B. Wells was hard at work to better the lives of African Americans. 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. Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of this legendary figure, which blends harmoniously with the historically detailed watercolor paintings of illustrator Bonnie Christensen. Supports the Common Core State Standards

Author : Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732648627

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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett