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Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B.
Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as
a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and
members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the
1970s Wells-Barnett's life, career, and legacy were relegated to
the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumously published
autobiography edited and released by her daughter Alfreda in 1970,
a handful of biographers and historians-most notably, Patricia
Schechter, Paula Giddings, Mia Bay, Gail Bederman, and Jinx
Broussard-have begun to place the life of Wells-Barnett within the
context of the social, cultural, and political milieu of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This edited volume seeks to
extend the discussions that they have cultivated over the last five
decades and to provide insight into the communication strategies
that the political advocate turned to throughout the course of her
life as a social justice crusader. In particular, scholars such as
Schechter, Broussard, and many more will weigh in on the full range
of communication techniques-from lecture circuits and public
relations campaigns to investigative and advocacy journalism-that
Wells-Barnett employed to combat racism and sexism and to promote
social equity; her dual career as a journalist and political
agitator; her advocacy efforts on an international, national, and
local level; her own failed political ambitions; her role as a
bridge and interloper in key social movements of the nineteenth and
twentieth century; her legacy in American culture; and her
potential to serve as a prism through which to educate others on
how to address lingering forms of oppression in the twenty-first
century.
Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B.
Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as
a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and
members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the
1970s Wells-Barnett's life, career, and legacy were relegated to
the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumously published
autobiography edited and released by her daughter Alfreda in 1970,
a handful of biographers and historians-most notably, Patricia
Schechter, Paula Giddings, Mia Bay, Gail Bederman, and Jinx
Broussard-have begun to place the life of Wells-Barnett within the
context of the social, cultural, and political milieu of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This edited volume seeks to
extend the discussions that they have cultivated over the last five
decades and to provide insight into the communication strategies
that the political advocate turned to throughout the course of her
life as a social justice crusader. In particular, scholars such as
Schechter, Broussard, and many more will weigh in on the full range
of communication techniques-from lecture circuits and public
relations campaigns to investigative and advocacy journalism-that
Wells-Barnett employed to combat racism and sexism and to promote
social equity; her dual career as a journalist and political
agitator; her advocacy efforts on an international, national, and
local level; her own failed political ambitions; her role as a
bridge and interloper in key social movements of the nineteenth and
twentieth century; her legacy in American culture; and her
potential to serve as a prism through which to educate others on
how to address lingering forms of oppression in the twenty-first
century.
The career and legacy of an extraordinary African American
crusader; 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 treatment makes vivid the scope of
Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political
philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually
became marginalized. Though forced into the shadow of black male
leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and
misunderstood and then ignored by white women reformers such as
Frances E. Willard and Jane Addams, Wells-Barnett nevertheless
successfully enacted a religiously inspired, female-centered, and
intensely political vision of social betterment and empowerment for
African American communities throughout her adult years. By
analyzing her ideas and activism in fresh sharpness and detail,
Schechter exposes the promise and limits of social change by and
for black women during an especially violent yet hopeful era in
U.S. history.
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