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Canada and the United States

Patricia A. Schechter. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880–1930. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xviii, 386. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

On March 9, 1892, three black store owners were lynched by a white mob in Memphis, Tennessee. Two months later, Ida B. Wells, a black woman journalist who was not yet thirty years old, angrily denounced the crime and other recent lynchings in The Memphis Free Speech. She then traveled to Philadelphia to attend the annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. While she was away from Memphis, a mob destroyed the Free Speech offices. Wells responded with an essay called "Exiled" in which she denounced lynching and the destruction of freedom of speech. Ten thousand copies of the essay were printed and distributed around the country. Thus Wells became the leader in the anti-lynching campaign. 1

But she did more than crusade against lynching. She organized a black woman's club in Chicago (which soon became known as the Ida B. Wells Club). She founded the Negro Fellowship League, a settlement house in Chicago. Working with white women, she campaigned for woman suffrage. Long active in Republican Party politics, she served as probation officer of the Chicago Municipal Court, and late in her life she ran unsuccessfully for the state senate. For nearly forty years she was a major spokesperson for black women. . . .

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