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Ida B. Wells

26 Oct 2008 Leave a Comment

by fdmcnama in Ida B. Wells

In Death at the Fair, Ida B. Wells is distributing her pamphlet THE REASON WHY THE COLORED AMERICAN IS NOT IN THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION: THE AFRO-AMERICAN’S CONTRIBUTION TO COLUMBIAN LITERATURE   See a preview of this books on Google Book Search at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=jEnhsdRlFB4C&pg=PP1&dq=inauthor:Ida+inauthor:B+inauthor:Wells+inauthor:Barnett#PPR11,M1

If you want to read some of the other publications that Ida B. Wells published, a few have been put online at Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/w#a5765

Also at Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=ida%20wells%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

If you want to learn more about this great American woman, by all means read her autobiography CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE

http://books.google.com/books?id=VNcKXc7ptQsC&dq=inauthor:Ida+inauthor:B+inauthor:Wells+inauthor:Barnett

http://www.amazon.com/Crusade-Justice-Autobiography-Biographies-Autobiographies/dp/0226893448/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225038687&sr=1-2

And a biography was published just last year by Paula Giddings a professor at Smith College.  It is called Ida: A Sword Among Lions

http://www.amazon.com/Ida-Sword-Campaign-Against-Lynching/dp/0060519215/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225038687&sr=1-1

Enjoy.