Eradicating this Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940

by Mary Jane Brown

Book Overview

Rather than discussing one aspect of women's anti-lynching activism, this book examines the subject in its entirety, from the 1890s to 1940s. It also discusses how differing goals and perceptions of the problem led to conflict within the movement. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, black women began a protest against lynching that eventually swelled into a sizable movement. Ida B. Wells, one of the fist anti-lynching advocates, attacked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138968927
• ISBN13: 9781138968929
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"