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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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British responses to American lynching -- The emergence of a transatlantic reformer -- The struggle for legitimacy -- Building a transatlantic debate on lynching -- American responses to British protest -- A transatlantic legacy. |
| Summary |
During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attentionto racially motivated American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a "black lady reformer"--A role American society denied her - and to assert her right to defend her race from abroad. Black Woman Reformer by Sarah Silkey explores Wells's 1893-94 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century transatlantic reform networks and debates about the role of extralegal violence in American society. Through her speaking engagements, newspaper interviews, and the efforts of her British allies, Wells altered the framework of public debates of lynching in both Britain and the United States. As British criticism of lynching mounted, southern political leaders desperate to maintain positive relations with choose weather to publicly defend or decry lynching. Although British moral pressure and media attention did not end lynching, the international scrutiny generated by Well's campaigns transformed our understanding of racial violence and made American communities increasingly reluctant to embrace lynching-- Dust jacket. |
| Local Note |
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Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 -- Travel.
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Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931. |
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Travel. |
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African American women -- Biography.
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African American women -- Biography. |
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African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African American women civil rights workers. |
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Biographies.
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African American women social reformers -- Biography.
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African American women social reformers. |
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Lynching -- United States -- Foreign public opinion, British.
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Lynching. |
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United States. |
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers. |
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Social reformers. |
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Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Public opinion. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Ida B. Wells, lynching, and transatlantic activism |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Silkey, Sarah L. Black woman reformer. Athens, GA : The University of Georgia Press, [2015] 9780820345574 (DLC) 2014024894 (OCoLC)883748462 |
| ISBN |
9780820346922 (electronic book) |
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0820346926 (electronic book) |
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1322949352 (e-book) |
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9781322949352 (e-book) |
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9780820345574 |
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0820345571 |
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