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    Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition

    By Ida B. Wells, Eve L. Ewing and Michelle Duster

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    “She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the history of the country.”—Alfreda M. Duster
     
    Ida B. Wells is an American icon of truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She co-founded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement, working alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Madam C. J. Walker, Mary Church Terrell, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony.
     
    This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Wells’s private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Eve L. Ewing, new images, and a new afterword by Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 17, 2020
    ISBN9780226691565
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    Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an African American investigative journalist and civil rights activist. Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was freed with her family following the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Having lost both parents to the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, she moved with her siblings to Memphis, Tennessee to work as a teacher. As co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, Wells gained a reputation for her powerful reports on lynching and racial segregation. In 1892, a white mob attacked the newspaper’s office, destroying the building and everything inside. Undeterred, she continued documenting the widespread practice of lynching in the American South, publishing her pamphlet Southern Horrors later that same year. In 1895, Wells published The Red Record, a more extensive account of the history of lynching and the lives of Black Americans in the South in the years following emancipation. Wells married attorney Ferdinand L. Barrett in Chicago in June 1895, having worked alongside him for several years as editor of pioneering Black newspaper The Chicago Conservator. Together, they raised two children from Barnett’s previous marriage and four children of their own, adding motherhood to Wells’ extensive responsibilities. This inspired her to establish Chicago’s first kindergarten for Black children at the Bethel AME Church. She worked tirelessly as an organizer and activist throughout her life, often disagreeing with such figures as W. E. B. Du Bois, who initially excluded her from the list of the NAACP’s founders.

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