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Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930
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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 Well...
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