The light of truth : writings of an anti-lynching crusader
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- ISBN: 9780143106821
- ISBN: 0143106821
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xxxvi, 581 pages ; 20 cm. - Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What is an African American classic? / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Introduction / Mia Bay -- The light of truth -- I. "Iola, the Princess of the Press" : Wells's Early Writings -- Stick to the race (1885) -- Functions of leadership 1885) -- Freedom of political action (1885) -- Woman's mission (1885) -- A story of 1900 (1886) -- Our women (1887) -- "Iola" on discrimination (1887) -- The model woman (1888) -- All things considered (1891) -- The Jim Crow car (1891) -- The lynchers wince (1891) -- The requisites of true leadership (1892) -- II. To call a thing by its true name : Wells's crusade against lynching -- Afro-Americans and Africa (1892) -- Bishop Tanner's "ray of light" (1892) -- Southern horrors : Lynch Law in all its phases (1892) -- Iola's southern field (1892) -- The requirements of Southern journalism (1893) -- Lynch Law in all its phases (1893) -- The reign of mob law (1893) -- Lynch Law and the color line (1893) -- To tole with watermelons (1893) -- Selections from The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the world's Columbian Exposition (1893) -- III. Ida B. Wells Abroad -- Two Christmas days : a holiday story (1894) -- Liverpool slave traditions and present practices (1894) -- The bitter cry of Black America : a new "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1894) -- Ida B. Wells abroad (1864) -- The English speak (1894) -- The scoundrel (1894) -- IV. The Crusade Continues -- She pleads for her race : Miss Ida B. Wells talks about her anti-lynching campaign (1894) -- A red record -- Lynch Law in Georgia (1899) -- V. Twentieth-Century Journalism and Letters -- Mob rule in New Orleans : Robert Charles and his fight to the death (1900) -- Lynch Law in America (1900) -- The Negro's case in equity (1900) -- Lynching and the excuse for it (1901) -- Booker T. Washington and his critics (1904) -- How enfranchisement stops lynchings (1940) -- The Northern Negro woman's social and moral condition (1910) -- Slayer, in grip of law, fights return to South (1910) -- Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett on Why Mrs. Jack Johnson Suicided (1912) -- Our country's lynching record (1913) -- The ordeal of the "solitary" (1915) -- The East St. Louis massacre : the greatest outrage of the century (1917) -- The Arkansas Race Riot (1920) -- Articles on the Mississippi flood (1927). |
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