Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism

Black woman reformer : Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism / Sarah L. Silkey.

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to racially motivated American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cult...

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Main Author: Silkey, Sarah L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931 > Travel.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931 > Travels.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., > 1862-1931
1700-1799
African American women > Biography.
African American women civil rights workers > Biography.
African American women social reformers > Biography.
Lynching > United States > Foreign public opinion, British.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
Social reformers > United States > Biography.
Public opinion > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
African American women
African American women civil rights workers
African American women social reformers
Civil rights workers
Public opinion
Social reformers
Travel
Great Britain
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • British responses to American lynching
  • The emergence of a transatlantic reformer
  • The struggle for legitimacy
  • Building a transatlantic debate on lynching
  • American responses to British protest
  • A transatlantic legacy.

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