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

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 ...