Wells-Barnett

Wells-Barnett and William Ivy Hair, whose Carnival of Fury is the accepted basic source on the Charles Riots, the “killing” was very likely the 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Georgia.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

“Wednesday New Orleans was in the hands of the mob… ,” Wells-Barnett writes.

The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

On Lynching by Ida B. Wells-Barnett: This fearless crusader, who refused to move to the colored train car (and bit the conductor who tried to budge her!) 71 years before Rosa Parks, stirred up so much ire with her Memphis newspapering that she had to move to Chicago, where she published the famous anti-lynching pamplets collected here.

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Wells-Barnett was one of the first African-Americans to raise an informed protest against this outrage.

Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

Wells-Barnett dedicated her life to bringing lynchings to the attention of America and the world.

Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008

Wells-Barnett was one of the first African-Americans to raise an informed protest against this outrage.

A Study in Extreme Courage Jan 2008

Wells-Barnett dedicated her life to bringing lynchings to the attention of America and the world.

A Study in Extreme Courage Jan 2008

Wells-Barnett of Chicago, both crusaders against black oppression, might earn her a spy or two.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

Indeed Walker believed, as Trotter, Du Bois, and Wells-Barnett all did, that black Americans could have a significant impact on the peace talks.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

Walker was honored—not only to be chosen to represent the National Equal Rights League but also to be in the company of Wells-Barnett, who as long ago as the 1880s had refused to leave a passenger train car designated for whites only.

Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007