Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930

by Patricia A. Schechter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849650
• ISBN13: 9780807849651
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.2"