America Awakened: The Anti-Lynching Crusade of Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Sep 2020 · Chemeketa Press

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A classic of investigative journalism, the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a contextual introduction and useful footnotes, this book gives students an opportunity to analyze and interpret primary texts. The book includes the full text of Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases; The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States; and Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, and Other Lynching Statistics.

About the author

Born a slave, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) became one of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most powerful voices for justice and against the brutality of lynching. Her unflinching journalistic accounts shed light on the evils and persistence of racism in the United States. Wells-Barnett was one of the original founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her groundbreaking activism laid the foundation for the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In 2020, she was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her “outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”

Taylor A. Marrow III was born in Princeton, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University and a Master of Arts in history from Ball State University. He has been married for fourteen years and is the father of two children. Currently he lives in Portland, Oregon, and is a full-time history instructor at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon.

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