Black Woman Reformer : Ida B. Wells, Lynching, & Transatlantic Activism, Hard...

Black Woman Reformer : Ida B. Wells, Lynching, & Transatlantic Activism, Hardcover by Silkey, Sarah L., ISBN 0820345571, ISBN-13 9780820345574, Brand New, Free shipping in the USIn 1893 and 1894, after a series of high-profile lynchings in the US, African American journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells traveled to England to launch a transatlantic anti-lynching campaign that cultivated British moral opposition to American lynching. This volume describes the 19th-century evolution of American and British discourse about lynching and how Wells used it to create a new debate about lynching as a racist act of violent oppression, challenging the basic assumptions about the role of mob violence in American society and changing the way people in Britain and the US understood lynching and American race relations. It details the dissemination of Wells' ideas through British social, political, and religious networks into transatlantic debate that opened up mainstream American debates that she was previously excluded from. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()