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Online-Ressource (221 p)
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9780820345574
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During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a "black lady reformer"-a role American society denied her-and assert her right to defend her race from abroad. Based on extensive archiv
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 British Responses to American Lynching; CHAPTER 2 The Emergence of a Transatlantic Reformer; CHAPTER 3 The Struggle for Legitimacy; CHAPTER 4 Building a Transatlantic Debate on Lynching; CHAPTER 5 American Responses to British Protest; CHAPTER 6 A Transatlantic Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820346922
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820345574
Additional Edition:
Print version Black Woman Reformer : Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism
Language:
English
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