Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”

Further Reading

Articles

• Holt, Thomas C. “The Lonely Warrior: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Struggle for Black Leadership.” In Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century, edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Books

• Duster, Alfreda M. Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
• Giddings, Paula J. Ida: A Sword among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching. New York: Amistad, 2008.
• McMurray, Linda O. To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889–1918. New York: NAACP, 1919.
• Ore, Ersula J. Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
• Royster, Jacquelyn Jones, ed. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900. Boston: Bedford, 1997.
• Schechter, Patricia A.Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880–1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
• Silkey, Sarah L. Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching and Transatlantic Activism. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
• Southern, David W. The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900–1917. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005.