Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells

Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells is the story of a young Black woman who decided to fight and protect Black people her entire life, and did so admirably. Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist, activist, and suffragist who lived in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was defiant, courageous, and committed to her life's work. For that reason, she endured violent threats from racist white men, and was ostracized by many Black male leaders. She spoke, wrote, and organized. But more importantly, she learned to believe in herself and her mission. As Wells herself wrote: "Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself, for his salvation."

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Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells

Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells is the story of a young Black woman who decided to fight and protect Black people her entire life, and did so admirably. Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist, activist, and suffragist who lived in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was defiant, courageous, and committed to her life's work. For that reason, she endured violent threats from racist white men, and was ostracized by many Black male leaders. She spoke, wrote, and organized. But more importantly, she learned to believe in herself and her mission. As Wells herself wrote: "Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself, for his salvation."

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Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells

Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells

by Todd Steven Burroughs
Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells

Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells

by Todd Steven Burroughs

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Warrior Princess: A People's Biography of Ida B. Wells is the story of a young Black woman who decided to fight and protect Black people her entire life, and did so admirably. Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist, activist, and suffragist who lived in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was defiant, courageous, and committed to her life's work. For that reason, she endured violent threats from racist white men, and was ostracized by many Black male leaders. She spoke, wrote, and organized. But more importantly, she learned to believe in herself and her mission. As Wells herself wrote: "Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself, for his salvation."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937306601
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
Publication date: 12/15/2017
Pages: 196
Sales rank: 645,256
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range: 13 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ........................................... 1

CHAPTER ONE: A Post-Civil War Life of Hope, Destroyed by Plague; Parents and an

Adolescence Stolen........................................... 9

CHAPTER TWO: Miss Ida B. Wells, The Schoolteacher Who Fought on a Train ......... 15

CHAPTER THREE: The Shaping of Black America: Ida B. Wells, the Black Press and

Free Speech in Post-reconstruction Memphis ..............23

CHAPTER FOUR: Knotted Rope: Wells’ Campaigns Against Lynching....................... 43

CHAPTER FIVE: The ‘Princess Of The Press’ Becomes a Feted Clubwoman........................ 79

CHAPTER SIX: Ida’s Alphabet: NAACP, NACW, NFL, NERL ...................................... 89

CHAPTER SEVEN: Family Time .............. 103

CHAPTER EIGHT: Sexism in the Movement: Wells-Barnett Fights Black Female

Invisibilty..................................................... 111

CHAPTER NINE: The Complicated Relationship Between Wells-Barnett and

White Feminism........................................... 121

CHAPTER TEN: An Elder in the 20th Century Black Freedom Movement........................... 137

CODA: A Nation of Leading Black Female Voices ........................................................... 147

BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................ 181

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