Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Primary Works Secondary Works


PRIMARY WORKS

Autobiography:

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for Justice. edited by Alfreda Duster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Other Nonfiction:

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. 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. Chicago, 1900.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, a Red Record, Mob Rule in New Orleans. Reprinted ed. Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Co., 1991.

Wells-Barnett, Ida B. A Red Record: Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1894. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1971.


SECONDARY WORKS

Hine, Darlene Clark, ed. "Ida B. Wells-Barnett : an exploratory study of an American Black woman," in Black Women in United States History, vol. 15. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., 1990.

Holt, Thomas. "The Lonely Warrior: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Struggle for Black Leadership." In Black Leaders of the 20th Century, edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1982, 39-61.

Ida B. Wells. (videorecording). Atlanta, GA: History on Video, 1993.

Lisandrelli, Elaine Slivinski. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Crusader Against Lynching. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1998.

Low, W. Augustus and Virgil A. Clift. Encyclopedia of Black America. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1981, 849-850.

Matthews, Geraldine O. Black American Writers, 1773-1949: a Bibliography and Union List. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.

McMurry, Linda O. To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells, Agitator. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Miller, Ericka Marie. The other reconstruction : where violence an womanhood meet in the writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1995. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 1997.

Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co, 1990, 339-342.

Salem, Dorothy C. African American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, 552-553.

Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

Yarbo-Swift, Diane and Lynda Tredway, eds., Women of Hope : African Americans who Made a Difference: Study Guide. New York, NY: Bread and Roses Cultural Project, 1994.


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